Re: Control.Exception

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Duncan Coutts
<duncan.coutts <at> worc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 09:26 -0800, Sigbjorn Finne wrote:
>> One way to do this now is to use Control.Exception.catches:
>>
>>  catches :: IO a -> [Handler a] -> IO a
>>  data Handler a where
>>     Handler :: forall a e. (Exception e) => (e -> IO a) -> Handler a
>
> ie:
>
> action
>  `catches`
>    [ \(e :: ExitCode) -> ...
>    , \(e :: PatternMatchFail) -> ...
>    ]
>
> or just by using multiple catch clauses:
>
> action
>  `catch` (\(e :: ExitCode) -> ...)
>  `catch` (\(e :: PatternMatchFail) -> ...)

I don't think those are equivalent. In the second case, the
PatternMatchFail handler scopes over the ExitCode handler.

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