Re: There are too many error handling conventions used in library code!

Simon Peyton-Jones writes in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/16016 :

You may find these papers relevant, especially the first. (Yes, you can catch and recover from head []!)

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/imprecise-exn.h...

Thank you very much; this is exactly the paper I needed to read, pointed out to me exactly when I needed to read it. Jack Waugh