Application letters at the Haskell workshop: suggestion

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk qrczak@knm.org.pl
14 Sep 2001 17:59:52 GMT


Fri, 14 Sep 2001 12:10:27 +1000, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty <chak@cse.unsw.edu.au> pisze:

> Maybe it should be clarified that there are exceptions in
> H98, but *only* in the IO monad.  What the extension is
> about are exceptions in pure functions.

BTW, Exceptions are useful for something other than Haskell 98
I/O primitives only when combined with Dynamic. Haskell 98 Exceptions
are limited like errno in C.

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