[Haskell-cafe] Absolutely confused with error/exception handling

[Brandon Allbery]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 8:42 PM, Saurabh Nanda <saurabhnanda at gmail.com>
wrote:

> * What exactly is done by the "error" function? How does one "trap" those
> errors and react to it? Can "catch" trap those errors? What is "e" in the
> case of errors raised by "error"?
>

`error` specifically raises a UserError exception, with a user-specified
payload (message). `catch` can catch them as such.


> * How is "error" different from "throw" and "throwIO" (in the
> Control.Exception package, I believe)
>

`throw` (for pure code / asynchronous) and `throwIO` (for code in IO) can
throw any exception. No guarantees are made as to when the exception thrown
by `throw`


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