On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:47 PM, Michael Snoyman wrote:
> For example, let's say I want to write some code to authenticate a user via
> OpenID (see the authenticate package). It has to do at least two things:
>
> * Download pages by HTTP
> * Parse the resulting HTML page.
>
> I would like to ideall
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Gregory Crosswhite <
gcr...@phys.washington.edu> wrote:
> Michael,
>
> Although I like the idea of improving the way that failures are handled in
> Haskell, I am having trouble seeing any reason to use your framework.
>
> If a function is always assumed to succeed
Michael,
Although I like the idea of improving the way that failures are handled in
Haskell, I am having trouble seeing any reason to use your framework.
If a function is always assumed to succeed given certain pre-conditions, and
somewhere along the lines my code discovers that one of these ha
We'd like to announce the next installment of the Failure Framework. Based
on feedback, our main goals in this release is to reduce the number of
external dependencies and avoid complications with monad transformer
libraries at the core of the framework. We have made the following changes:
* Failu