[Haskell-cafe] Tricky exception handling

[Joel Reymont]

Bulat,

I would welcome suggestions for improvements. Please let me know how  
my code could be made more efficient and more readable, keeping in  
mind what I'm trying to accomplish.

Notice that my logic is different from the one that you are proposing.

What I want is to handle exceptions in the forever loop _and_  
terminate the forever loop when an exception is posted. The only  
reason I have the exception handler is that I want to post a message  
when the exception is received, unless it's a KillThread exception.

Unless I'm mistaken, the code above will run forever and will not  
exit on exception.

I use the code like this:

        tid1 <- forkIO $ writeLoop post h ssl
                `finally` finalize sock_lock ssl_lock

but indeed no message will be posted if an exception happens between  
the calls to handle and things will just be silently finalized. I'm  
not sure how to have it both ways here.

On Dec 12, 2005, at 11:29 AM, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

> Hello Joel,
>
> your code is unreadable, inefficent and don't handle async exceptions
> between calls to `handle`. as i already sayed you'd better to use:
>
> handle (...)
>   repeat_forever
>     do cmd <- read h ssl
>        post $! Cmd $! cmd

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