[Haskell-cafe] better error expression in IO function

Thomas Conway drtomc at gmail.com
Wed Jul 11 19:18:14 EDT 2007


On 7/12/07, Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> wrote:
> It's fairly common to use the Either type for this. By convention,
> "Right" means "correct", and by elimination "Left" means an error...

Presumably, this is because the world is dominated by dull,
conventional, right handed people. :-)

cheers,
Tom Southpaw Conway
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