| As you probably know, GHC and Hugs now support an exception mechanism
| which lets you recover from calls to 'error' -- but of course that's
| not in H98.
Sorry Simon, but it's not supported in any currently
released version of Hugs either.
All the best,
Mark
Ralph,
> you said that `fail' intentionally calls `error' in the IO monad
> because it corresponds to pattern matching failure. I would buy this
> argument if `fail' were used only internally. But it is exposed to the
> user: she or he is free to call `fail'. Now, in the list
> monad `fail s'
>
