[Haskell] Re: installing streams library

[Simon Marlow]

Ross Paterson wrote:
> 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.

oops, thanks for the correction.

Simon