[Haskell-cafe] Haskell and the Software design process

[Limestraël]

2010/5/4 John Lato <jwlato at gmail.com>

> "Crashing at the point of the error" isn't necessarily useful in
> Haskell due to lazy evaluation.  The code will crash when the result
> of the partial function is evaluated, which may be quite far away (in
> terms of function calls) from where the programmer would expect.
>

Is that why Haskell can't provide a traceback when exceptions are raised?

Are there other methods than Maybe or exceptions to handle the errors in
Haskell? Is the monad Error(T) useful?
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