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

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 3:45 AM, Saurabh Nanda <saurabhnanda at gmail.com>
wrote:

> if I don't understand why I'm unable to catch errors in MonadIO I'm bound
> to get stuck again, or implement it incorrectly (for example, what are the
> resource leaks that were being referred to?)


https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2014-November/024224.html is
the start of the rather large thread that led to the current exception
primitives, which exception managers ranging from the standard `bracket` to
MonadBaseControl rely on. There are quite a few examples of resource leaks
during exception handling (or despite exception handling!) in it, along
with many other pitfalls that can occur.

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