On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Antoine Latter <aslat...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Florian Weimer <f...@deneb.enyo.de> wrote: >> * Henning Thielemann: >> >>> Some open/close pairs have corresponding 'with' functions, that are >>> implemented using Exception.bracket. You can also use them within >>> GHCi. I think using both manual resource deallocation and finalizers >>> makes everything more complicated and more unreliable. >> >> It seems that Exception.bracket does not work in all cases, see the >> recent "MonadCatchIO, finally and the error monad" thread. >> >> Anyway, the ability of closures (and threads) means that something >> like Exception.bracket does not prevent access to closed handles, so >> I still need an additional safety net. > > That thread is for the function "bracket" provided by the package > MonadCatchIO. Control.Exception.bracket should work fine as far as I > know.
I can confer that when I brought up the issue with bracket, it's only referring to the function exported by MonadCatchIO. I sure as hell hope The Control.Exception version always works properly ;). Michael _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe