On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan <b...@serpentine.com> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Alexander Dunlap > <alexander.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I have noticed that in both Data.Binary and Data.Text (which is still >> experimental, but still), the "decode" functions can be undefined >> (i.e. bottom) if they encounter malformed input. > > For decoding Unicode, it's typical to provide a flexible API that can do one > of the following on a bad encoding: > > Substitute a character > Skip it > Return the partial decode > Throw an exception > > I just haven't gotten there yet. >
Thanks! I guess we'll see how this comes together. Does anyone know about error handling options in Data.Binary? Are there plans to add an error handling mechanism? Alex _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
