On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 2:23 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> John Meacham wrote:
>> Error is not catchable in haskell 98. Only things thrown by raiseIO are.
>
> I see; so GHC, absent any LANGUAGE pragma, should have arranged for
> `error' to generate a non-catchable exception.
Actually, it was because you imported Control.Exception. the catch/handle in
Control.Exception has different behavior than the catch in Prelude. one catches
imprecise exceptions, the other doesn't.
John
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