Alexander Dunlap wrote:
I don't understand. Why don't you compile the functions we are suggesting _into the library_?
The wrapper in either direction is a trivial one liner. The question is: what will be the standard advertised API? If we provide an exception-based idiom for this, we could indirectly cause a system-damaging crash in some seemingly unrelated part of someone's program. That is why I am suggesting that we not include any functions that raise exceptions in non-error conditions. The argument against the above might be as follows: The current limitations in the IO exception system just mean that Haskell is not quite completely ready yet for the monad transformer style. Perhaps. It would make me a bit sad to add one more way that its usefulness is limited, though. I don't think that the difference between raising an exception and other idioms is important enough in this case to make the readline library one of those ways. Thanks, Yitz