Proposal: Deprecate and remove Prelude.catch and System.IO.Error.{catch, try}

[Isaac Dupree]

On 01/04/11 13:20, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> GHC actually can't currently deprecate one export of 'catch' but not the
> other. Because of this, and because of the possible confusion etc with
> having 2 'catch' functions, I suggest we add catchIO and tryIO to
> System.IO.Error too. This will also give the new report a catch function
> it can refer to without having to worry about existential
> quantification etc.

Noooooooooooooooooo!  Then "throwIO" will throw an exception and 
"catchIO" won't catch it.  I will feel horribly confused; or at least 
some people probably will.  Thoughts?

-Isaac