Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Strictness in do block

On 7/5/06, John Goerzen wrote:

On 2006-07-05, Duncan Coutts wrote:

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evaluate is for just that purpose.

evaluate (length input)

from the docs:

http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Control-Exception.htm...

That looks like what I need, but why is it in Control.Exception instead of System.IO? If it were in System.IO, I would have found it.

I suppose one of its main purposes is to catch the stuff thrown by undefined and error.