Re: [Haskell-cafe] More powerful error handling

2008-02-18 Thread Henning Thielemann
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Philippa Cowderoy wrote: The nicest use would be for converting between a more specific error type and a more general one that handles a wider range of errors - enabling us to keep tighter track of which errors are possible in a given piece of code. Bonus points for

[Haskell-cafe] More powerful error handling

2008-02-17 Thread Philippa Cowderoy
For a while I've been meaning to propose something along the lines of this class: class (MonadError m e, MonadError m' e') = MonadErrorRelated m e m' e' | m - e, m' - e', m e' - m' where catch' :: m a - (e - m' a) - m' a rethrow :: m a - (e - e') - m' a with an example instance