11 Mar
2011
11 Mar
'11
4:07 p.m.
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Daniel Peebles wrote:
Check out the spoon package on hackage. It's designed for these kinds of situations, and will wrap up common user-generated "pure" exceptions into a Maybe (and will return Nothing in the cases you describe)
This is a hack, since 'undefined' cannot be detected in general. The clean solution would be to find out where invalid file descriptors are detected in the IO code, and throw a real IOException instead of an 'error'.