[Haskell-cafe] ANN: asynchronous-exceptions

[Edsko de Vries]

Be aware that "passing through" of asynchronous exceptions is not really
possible. There simply is no way to selectively catch an exception -- one
must always catch and rethrow, thus turning asynchronous exceptions into
synchronous exceptions. See http://www.edsko.net/2013/06/11/throwto/ for
details.

Edsko


On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Roman Cheplyaka <roma at ro-che.info> wrote:

> It is often useful to distinguish between synchronous and asynchronous
> exceptions. The common idiom is to run a user-supplied computation
> catching any synchronous exceptions but allowing asynchronous exceptions
> (such as user interrupt) pass through.
>
> base 4.7 (shipped with GHC 7.8) will have SomeAsyncException type that
> solves this problem.
>
> asynchronous-exceptions is a new package that serves two purposes:
> * provide compatibility with older `base` versions that lack the
>   `SomeAsyncException` type
> * define convenient functions for catching only synchronous exceptions
>
> Roman
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