Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell and the Software design process

Ketil Malde schrieb:

Henning Thielemann writes:

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http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.12.2/html/libraries/base-4.2.0.1/Control-E...

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I see. This should be forbidden, at all! :-)

Why is this worse than or different from 'error'? To me it looks like 'error', only with a non-string parameter.

Because it encourages the use in a non-error way, that is, catching such an exception is regarded as good use.