[Haskell-cafe] How to make interface IO() to IO a in a command-driven tool

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2008 Nov 18, at 17:55, Kyongho Min wrote:
> I am working on a command-driven tool (::IO ()).
> If the system invokes itself again, and the system's returned
> data type would be 'IO a', say (IO Exp) (Expression).
>
> tool:: a -> IO()
>
> The nested tool invocation returns (IO Exp) to the previous tool.
> I am using dynamic error exception handling like (throwDyn exp).
>
> If I use 'forkIO', then it works for this situation (e.g. IO Exp)  
> but it is not working for 'quit' command (quit the tool:: thread  
> blocked indefinitely) - quit the subtool and return to the previous  
> tool.


Consider using a special type of dynamic exception to mean "quit".

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