[Haskell] Re: installing streams library

Bulat Ziganshin bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com
Thu May 25 05:36:15 EDT 2006


Hello Ross,

Wednesday, May 24, 2006, 4:50:39 PM, you wrote:

>> Now you could make purely functional code raise I/O exceptions, but that
>> gives rise to a few problems: imprecise exceptions are difficult to 
>> program with (need deepSeq etc.), and they aren't widely implemented 
>> (Hugs doesn't have them, JHC doesn't have them and may not get them 
>> IIUC).

> Hugs has had imprecise exceptions (but not asynchronous ones) since Nov 2003.

can you please explain or give a pointer - what is an imprecise
exceptions? i thought that it the synonym for async ones


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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com



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