A write-once cell that can be empty or full (i.e. hold a single value).
One can read
an ivar to obtain a deferred that becomes determined when the ivar is
filled. An ivar is similar to an 'a option ref
, except it is an error to fill an
already full ivar.
fill t v
fills t
with value v
if t
was empty. If t
was full, fill raises
an exception.
It is guaranteed that immediately after calling fill t
,
is_some (Deferred.peek (read t))
.
fill_if_empty t v
fills t
with v
if t
is currently empty. If t
is full,
then fill_if_empty
does nothing.