change in IO error messages
Dean Herington
heringto@cs.unc.edu
Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:05:17 -0400
In the 20021021 release candidate, a newline is now appended to IO error
messages, including in particular the case of (ioError (userError "user
message")). I dislike this change for several reasons:
* It treats IO errors differently from other exceptions. That is, (show
e) for
an Exception e has a newline appended for IO errors but not other
exceptions.
* It introduces an unnecessary inconsistency with GHC.
* It breaks HUnit, which needs to manipulate error message strings.
-- Dean