[Haskell-cafe] How to catch exception within the Get monad (the Binary package)

[Victor Gorokhov]

> If however something goes wrong, and prs fails, the whole function
> fails (error is thrown). Since [a] (result of decoding) is a lazy
> list, actual exception may be thrown at any moment the list is being
> processed, and exception handler may not be properly set.

> True -> return (reverse a)
> False -> many' (s:a)
Lazy lists are built in left to right order, but this one is right to left.


> Is there any way to catch/detect failures inside the Get monad?
lookAhead, lookAheadM, etc