Proposal: Deprecate and remove Prelude.catch and System.IO.Error.{catch, try}

Neil Mitchell ndmitchell at gmail.com
Mon Dec 27 14:13:21 CET 2010


+1, I've been bitten by this in practice - using Prelude.catch is
nearly never what people want to do, and it's such an easy and obvious
mistake.

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Felipe Almeida Lessa
<felipe.lessa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
> <ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I like this proposal; having to explicitly hide Prelude.catch keeps
>> tripping me up/annoying me all the time.
>
> +1, I love it as well.
>
> --
> Felipe.
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