Re: [Haskell-cafe] better error expression in IO function

On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 17:10 -0700, Jeremy Shaw wrote:

At Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:18:14 +1000, Thomas Conway wrote:

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On 7/12/07, Andrew Coppin wrote:

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It's fairly common to use the Either type for this. By convention, "Right" means "correct", and by elimination "Left" means an error...

Presumably, this is because the world is dominated by dull, conventional, right handed people. :-)

Personally, I blame it on the Romans.

Personally, I blame it on biology.