On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 2:23 AM, <o...@okmij.org> wrote: > > John Meacham wrote: >> Error is not catchable in haskell 98. Only things thrown by raiseIO are. > > I see; so GHC, absent any LANGUAGE pragma, should have arranged for > `error' to generate a non-catchable exception.
Actually, it was because you imported Control.Exception. the catch/handle in Control.Exception has different behavior than the catch in Prelude. one catches imprecise exceptions, the other doesn't. John _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe