[Haskell-cafe] Haskell and the Software design process

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On May 3, 2010, at 12:14 , Henning Thielemann wrote:
> Ketil Malde schrieb:
>> Henning Thielemann <lemming at henning-thielemann.de> writes:
>>>> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.12.2/html/libraries/base-4.2.0.1/Control-Exception.html#v%3Athrow
>>
>>> I see. This should be forbidden, at all! :-)
>>
>> Why is this worse than or different from 'error'?  To me it looks  
>> like
>> 'error', only with a non-string parameter.
>
> Because it encourages the use in a non-error way, that is, catching  
> such
> an exception is regarded as good use.

One could argue that it's a more comprehensible to mortals version of  
Control.Monad.Cont.

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