Re: Proposal: add Control.Exception.SomeAsyncException

On Feb 5, 2014 10:42 AM, "Evan Laforge" wrote:

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Roman Cheplyaka wrote:

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I just discovered that SomeAsyncException under the exact same name and with the same intention has been added to base-4.7 (GHC 7.8). How cool is that?

I think this is a good enhancement, however I'm of the opinion that "catching all exceptions except async" is an anti-pattern that should usually be avoided. There was a discussion about this on -cafe several months back that I think covers it pretty well. John L.