Does Haskell have an equivalent of Alice's ability to bind a variable to a future?
val a = spawn foo;
where foo is some function.
I know Haskell supports channels and threads; I'm hoping for syntax as natural as Alice's to bind a value to a future and spawn a thread to calculate it without having to deal with the details.
You can use par from Control.Parallel as in
a `par` f a b c
where
a = foo
This is a hint to the runtime that a could be evaluated in another thread.