On 16 Feb 2008, at 11:46 PM, Anton van Straaten wrote:
Colin Paul Adams wrote:
"Cale" == Cale Gibbard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Cale> So, the first version:
Cale> import System.IO import Control.Exception (try)
Cale> main = do mfh <- try (openFile "myFile" ReadMode) case mfh
Cale> of Left err -> do putStr "Error opening file for reading: "
Cale> print err Right fh -> do mline <- try (hGetLine fh) case
Cale> mline of Left err -> do putStr "Error reading line: " print
Cale> err hClose fh Right line -> putStrLn ("Read: " ++ line)
Left? Right?
Hardly descriptive terms. Sounds like a sinister language to me.
I was thinking along the same lines. Politically-sensitive left-
handed people everywhere ought to be offended that "Left" is the
alternative used to represent errors, mnemonic value notwithstanding.
Is there a benefit to reusing a generic Either type for this sort
of thing?
Standardization. It's already a standard, we need a standard sum
type anyway, and it'd be kind of silly to have two isomorphic types
with the same signature in the Prelude.
jcc
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