Remove MonadFail (ST s) instance
Henning Thielemann
lemming at henning-thielemann.de
Mon Nov 25 11:37:47 UTC 2019
On Mon, 25 Nov 2019, Bertram Felgenhauer via Libraries wrote:
> Oleg Grenrus wrote:
>> I cannot see any justification for that instance
>>
>> -- | @since 4.11.0.0
>> instance Fail.MonadFail (ST s) where
>> fail s = errorWithoutStackTrace s
>
> It's certainly not in the spirit of the MonadFail proposal. Arguably,
> *all* implementations of `fail` in terms of `error*` are wrong, even
> the one for IO. (I suspect dropping the instance for IO would cause a
> lot of pain though...)
Isn't fail in IO a synonym for (ioError . userError) ?
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