On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 12:40:45PM +1100, Bernard James POPE wrote:
but here comes the problem: how can I define new Exception codes, instead of raising userError all the time? I think it makes sense for a library to raise specialized exceptions, instead of userErrors. There is such a mechanism? Can someone help?
If the encoding doesn't somehow suit your needs then you could try GHC's exception extensions, which provide a much richer exception facility than plain Haskell 98
Have a look at the module Control.Exception in the user docs.
You could also check out System.IO.Error, which allows you to define (and of course, raise) IOErrors, which is probably closer to what you want (see mkIOError). If you use System.Exception to define errors of type Exception, then you'll need to use System.Exception.catch to catch them. If you define errors of type ioError, then the prelude catch will catch them, which is more likely what you want. -- David Roundy http://www.abridgegame.org