Re: catch (fail "...")

Simon Peyton-Jones simonpj@microsoft.com writes:

This is an inconsistency that was fixed in the revised Haskell98=20 report (Apr 2001). See

> http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/haskell98-revised

In the bug list look for Page 90.

It looks as though Hugs hasn't quite caught up with this change.

Yes, the Feb 2001 release (which Brian was/is using) unfortunately didn't foresee the future change to the Report :-) The current release, Dec 2001, does the prescribed thing. --sigbjorn