Proposal: Extensible exceptions

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Ian,

Friday, July 4, 2008, 5:29:24 PM, you wrote:

> This is a proposal to replace the current exception mechanism in the
> base library with extensible exceptions.

extensible exceptions, records and syntax are my favorite
missing-in-haskell-garden pets, so my +1000

syntax to defining new exceptions is a bit too fat, but it's probably
impossible to use something more direct and consistent like it's done in
OOP languages?

also, are your examples cover all the possible scenarios of using
exceptions? you may consider it as tutorial on "New Exceptions" :)

is it planned to be included in 6.10? how it will work with legacy
code, in particular libraries developed with old base in mind? how
mixed code (throwing/catching exceptions in old and new styles) will
work together?


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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com