[commit: ghc] master: Generalise type of recently added System.Exit.die (bcd989d)
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On branch : master
Link : http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/changeset/bcd989d13072a189b49d9393b0d4b1bbaede9d36/ghc
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commit bcd989d13072a189b49d9393b0d4b1bbaede9d36
Author: Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr at gnu.org>
Date: Mon Apr 21 20:29:15 2014 +0200
Generalise type of recently added System.Exit.die
This is a follow-up to 77ea2eb0ab36d1a (re #9016) which added `die` with a
return type of `IO ()` even though all other functions in System.Exit have
the more general return type `IO a`. It is assumed this was an oversight in
the original proposal.
Acked-by: Edward Kmett <ekmett at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr at gnu.org>
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bcd989d13072a189b49d9393b0d4b1bbaede9d36
libraries/base/System/Exit.hs | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/libraries/base/System/Exit.hs b/libraries/base/System/Exit.hs
index 4f6eba6..932cbfb 100644
--- a/libraries/base/System/Exit.hs
+++ b/libraries/base/System/Exit.hs
@@ -79,5 +79,5 @@ exitSuccess = exitWith ExitSuccess
-- | Write given error message to `stderr` and terminate with `exitFailure`.
--
-- /Since: 4.7.1.0/
-die :: String -> IO ()
+die :: String -> IO a
die err = hPutStrLn stderr err >> exitFailure
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