[Haskell-cafe] How to catch all exceptions that could be caught?

[Magicloud Magiclouds]

Yes, that is a problem. But consider my PS in original mail, I have no
idea what exception should I catch. Where could I get that
information?

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
<ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12 January 2012 17:34, Gregory Crosswhite <gcrosswhite at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 01/12/12 13:03, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>   With Prelude.catch, I could write "catch () $ \_ -> return Nothing".
>>> But with Control.Exception.catch, I must specify a type for the "_".
>>> What should I do?
>>
>> Use SomeException for the type, as it is the base of the exception
>> hierarchy.
>
> But it is usually recommended that you *don't* do this, as it even
> captures Ctrl-c invocations:
> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Control-Exception.html#g:4
>
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