Re: :set -fbreak-on-exception in GHCi causes exception in readFile

On Nov 20, 2009, at 12:25 , Sean Leather wrote:

Perhaps I don't quite get how this works, but when I :set -fbreak-on- exception in GHCi, I get an exception using readFile. It reads the entire file and then throws what appears to be an EOF exception.

I believe that's normal; the runtime normally handles the exception itself, so you normally don't see it, but in principle you could catch it and perhaps do finalizer-ish things. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH