Proposal: System.Environment.getEnv should return Maybe

[John Meacham]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Bas van Dijk <v.dijk.bas at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23 February 2012 01:07, Evan Laforge <qdunkan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Good point, I had forgotten about the Prelude catch.  I think I can go
>> remove a bunch of ScopedTypedVariables now.
>
> Note that Prelude.catch has been deprecated in favor of
> Control.Exception.catch. If you want to catch IOErrors you can either
> use ScopedTypedVariables or System.IO.Error.catchIOError.

Control.Exception.catch is not in haskell 98 or haskell 2010. It also requires
pulling in some heavy extensions and actually has fundamentally different
behavior than Prelude.catch. We definitely should not consider it a
replacement.

    John