On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 01:24:07PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: > Attached is another variant of the extensible exceptions idea, it > improves on the previous designs in a couple of ways: there's only one > catch & throw, regardless of what type you're throwing or catching. > There is an extensible hierarchy of exceptions, and you can catch and > re-throw subclasses of exceptions.
I made the catch and throw separate so the decision as to whether to include imprecice exceptions and extensible extensions can be made independently. that and throw x /= ioError x ioError x >> return () -> IO _|_ (only _|_ when IO action executed) throw x >> return () -> _|_ ioError x `seq` () -> () throw x `seq` () -> _|_ John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈ _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime