[jhc] fail message sent to stdout?

[John Meacham]

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 03:51:13PM -0400, David Roundy wrote:
> It seems that under jhc, the from fail (called in the IO monad) is
> sent to stdout rather than stderr.  Is this a policy choice... and is
> it open to debate? I discovered this because a test script was failing
> due to the assumption that fail would print to stderr.  Admittedly, it
> isn't in the standard, but it makes sense to me that it ought to go to
> stderr.

Yeah, this is also a bug. Most of the exception support needs to be
filled in various ways actually. I have added a bug about it to the bug
tracker.

http://repetae.net/computer/jhc/bug/

        John

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