:set -fbreak-on-exception in GHCi causes exception in readFile

[Sean Leather]

> heh, the well known problem, i've seen it in Delphi. it even has a large
> list of exceptions to be ignored, but i think that better way will be
> to set this on a per-package and per-module basis
>

Yes, that might be a better idea. In general though, it sounds as if
-fbreak-on-error will be useful more often than -fbreak-on-exception. I was
not aware of the former, and I had the latter in my .ghci. I think I'll
remove it from there and just use the OPTIONS pragma when needed.


> > Perhaps I don't quite get how this works, but when I :set
> > -fbreak-on-exception in GHCi, I get an exception using readFile. It
> > reads the entire file and then throws what appears to be an EOF
> exception.
>
>  Prelude>> readFile "blah.txt"
> > "blah\nblah\nblah\nStopped at <exception thrown>
> > _exception ::
> >   e = GHC.Exception.SomeException (GHC.Exception.:DException _
> >
> (GHC.Show.:DShow ...) ....)
> >                                    (GHC.IOBase.IOError Nothing
> GHC.IOBase.EOF ....)
>
>
> > When I :set -fno-break-on-exception, I see no exception.
>
> > I thought that lazy IO reads until it reaches the EOF, then closes
> > the file. This happens with both 6.10.1 and 6.8.3, so perhaps this
> > is standard stuff, and I'm missing something.
>

Regards,
Sean
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