Why no exceptions in Haskell?

2001-11-22 Thread Michael Marte
Hello *, I am just curious: Why does Haskell not provide exceptions a la SML? Why does only the IO monad allow for exceptions? Michael ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: Why no exceptions in Haskell?

2001-11-22 Thread Keith Wansbrough
Hello *, I am just curious: Why does Haskell not provide exceptions a la SML? Why does only the IO monad allow for exceptions? GHC certainly implements exceptions, along the lines described in A semantics for imprecise exceptions, Simon Peyton Jones, Alastair Reid, Tony Hoare, Simon

Re: Why no exceptions in Haskell?

2001-11-22 Thread Fergus Henderson
On 22-Nov-2001, Keith Wansbrough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am just curious: Why does Haskell not provide exceptions a la SML? Why does only the IO monad allow for exceptions? GHC certainly implements exceptions, along the lines described in A semantics for imprecise exceptions, Simon

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