[Haskell] Better Exception Handling

[Graham Klyne]

I, too, had a gripe about this, and was pointed to an excellent paper that 
explains all:

   A Semantics for Imprecise Exceptions (1999)
   Simon Peyton Jones, Alastair Reid, Tony Hoare, Simon Marlow, Fergus 
Henderson
   SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation
   http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/peytonjones99semantics.html

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At 16:12 23/11/04 +0100, Johannes Waldmann wrote:

>>The other annoying thing is forcing it to run in the IO monad.
>
>necessarily so, since Haskell has non-strict semantics
>so it's not so clear when an exception is actually raised
>(you might have left the block  that textually contained the offending 
>expression , and the exception handler, a long time ago)
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