On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 01:20:05PM +0200, Einar Karttunen wrote:
> It seems that the type of throwDyn and throwDynTo are dangerously close.
> ThrowDyn works in with any of the arguments of throwDynTo, which can
> cause evil situations.
>
> throwDyn :: Typeable exception => exception -> b
>
> Which means e.g. "throwDyn someThreadId SomeException" will work
> when you wanted to say "throwDynTo someThreadId SomeException"
> and they both have types which unify with IO ().
How evil! ;-)
> I think using a
> class Typeable => DynamicException a where ...
> and throwDyn :: DynamicException a => a -> b
> could make more sense.
You could also do something like:
newtype Exn a = Exn a -- not Typeable
throwDyn' :: Typeable exception => Exn exception -> b
throwDyn' (Exn e) = throwDyn e
used as
throwDyn' (Exn (some-typeably-thingy))
then neither (throwDyn' someThreadId SomeException) nor
(throwDyn' someThreadId (Exn SomeException)) will compile.
And you won't have to create instances of DynamicException, but it is
probably more ugly.
Best regards
Tomasz
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