8 Oct
2008
8 Oct
'08
4:19 a.m.
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). Cheers, Simon