<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 5:15 PM, wren ng thornton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wren@freegeek.org">wren@freegeek.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I'd like to propose adding a variant of fdSeek which returns errors<br>
directly instead of throwing an exception.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Why wouldn't you just wrap it in Control.Exception.try instead? And what's so special about seeking that suggests that it needs an alternate entry point?</div>
<div><br></div><div>(In other words, I'm opposed to this proposal.)</div></div>