On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 01:00:39PM -0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
Our feeling over here is that this is an unforced change, so in isolation it probably wouldn't be worthwhile. It'll break some code, and the awkward squad paper will have to be updated to comply (although we just noticed it is already wrong about the behaviour of Prelude.catch).
What should other implementations do?
I'm not sure I understand the question - other implementations should follow whatever is decided for the library interface, right? I'm really not arguing either way, in fact I like the change, but perhaps we should think hard before breaking code. I haven't heard anyone else comment so far on whether they like/dislike the current Exception interface... anyone? Cheers, Simon