On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:19 AM, Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Johannes Waldmann wrote: >> >> with 6.10, the following does not typecheck: >> >> foo `Control.Exception.catch` \ _ -> return bar >> >> Ambiguous type variable `e' in the constraint: >> `Control.Exception.Exception e' >> >> It is probably bad programming style anyway but what is the workaround? > > As long as you're aware that it is bad programming style. We deliberately > didn't include an easy way to do this, because we want people to think about > why they need to catch *all* exceptions (most of the time it's a bug).
Since the above is bad form, what should I be doing? Could someone please provide some examples or point me at the list of exceptions that I can catch? What about catching multiple types of exceptions? Thanks, Jason _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
