[Haskell] Re: installing streams library

[Ross Paterson]

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 10:51:31AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
> Now you could make purely functional code raise I/O exceptions, but that 
> gives rise to a few problems: imprecise exceptions are difficult to 
> program with (need deepSeq etc.), and they aren't widely implemented 
> (Hugs doesn't have them, JHC doesn't have them and may not get them 
> IIUC).

Hugs has had imprecise exceptions (but not asynchronous ones) since Nov 2003.