Proposal: Remove Control.OldException

Henning Thielemann lemming at henning-thielemann.de
Tue Feb 7 13:48:03 CET 2012


On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Simon Marlow wrote:

> On 03/02/2012 21:00, Henning Thielemann wrote:
>> 
>> I prefer to have an old-exception package. I guess it is the only way to
>> cope with IO exceptions in a Haskell 98 way.
>
> Could you clarify what you want to do?  System.IO.Error would still be 
> supported, which provides ioError and catch.

So far I was used to import Control.Exception for bracket and ioError and 
catch. If this continues to work with System.IO.Error, I am happy.



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