[Haskell-cafe] Handling exceptions or gracefully releasing resources

[Thiago Negri]

Felipe, I'm trying to use your Hipmunk package. :)
The resources I need to keep around are the objects used for the simulation.
Do you recomend using "resourcet" to handle this or something else?

Thanks.


2013/1/30 Felipe Almeida Lessa <felipe.lessa at gmail.com>

> Everything that Johan Tibell said + you may be interested in the
> resourcet package [1] (which is used by conduit to handle resources).
>
> Cheers,
>
> [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/resourcet
>
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Thiago Negri <evohunz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > `Control.Exception.bracket` is a nice function to acquire and release a
> > resource in a small context.
> >
> > But, how should I handle resources that are hold for a long time?
> >
> > Should I put `Control.Exception.finally` on every single line of my
> > finalizers?
> > What exceptions may occur on an IO operation?
> > Every IO function has the risk of throwing an exception?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Thiago.
> >
> >
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> --
> Felipe.
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