i think that may be too in depth. all i'm trying to do is catch a regular pattern match exception On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Roel van Dijk wrote:

Have a look at this recently uploaded package:

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/first-class-patterns

Examine the "tryMatch" function in particular.

thanks, i've got it working i'll probably post the code when i'm done On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Nicolas Pouillard wrote:

Excerpts from Dan Mead's message of Tue Nov 10 20:23:26 +0100 2009:

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i think that may be too in depth.

all i'm trying to do is catch a regular pattern match exception

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Roel van Dijk wrote:

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Have a look at this recently uploaded package:

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/first-class-patterns

Examine the "tryMatch" function in particular.

You can do this with Control.Exception.evaluate [1]. However while it looks like what you want I recommend you to not use it too often, catching "error" calls is not the best way of using Haskell. However if this is for debugging purpose or setting up a global exception catcher for a final product then this is fine.

[1]: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Control-Exception...

-- Nicolas Pouillard http://nicolaspouillard.fr