Numeric literals

Mark Carroll mark@chaos.x-philes.com
Wed, 29 Aug 2001 12:17:56 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Simon Marlow wrote:
(snip)
> In GHC, you can do this:
> 
>    import Exception
> 
> 	do result <- catch (evaluate (read "foo" :: Int))
> 			       (\error -> ... )
(snip)

I do like that. Is it likely to become standard someday, do you think?
Errors like this should certainly be catchable in such a way; I was sad
when I was first looking into this and found that 'catch' seemed to be
inextricably linked to IO.

-- Mark