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

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 3:46 AM, Saurabh Nanda <saurabhnanda at gmail.com>
wrote:

> To generalise the problem, because I've encountered it in other places as
> well, how does one write his/her own instance of MonadIO, MonadThrow, or
> MonadCatch for complicated transformer stacks such has ActionCtxT?


You do not generally write MonadIO, you use GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving. But
if you insist on writing it yourself:
  instance MonadIO MyMonad ... where liftIO = lift . liftIO
(your MyMonad *must* be an instance of MonadTrans)

MonadThrow and MonadCatch, I suggest you refer to their documentation. But
I will tell you that writing this kind of exception management, in such a
way that you do not leak resources (memory, file handles, database
connections, ...), is *very hard*. You probably should not attempt it
unless you have experience with this. (I won't even try to write one; I
understand the basic issues, but lack specific experience with how to deal
with them in ghc and with specific exception mechanisms like
MonadThrow/MonadCatch and MonadBaseControl.)

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