Handling Exceptions in Haskell
Alastair Reid
Yale University
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Yale University Research Report YALE/DCS/RR-1178
New Haven, CT, USA
August 1998
Abstract
Using a language without exception handling is like driving
a car with no brakes and no seatbelt — things work fine until
something goes wrong. You also learn to drive rather carefully.
This paper describes an exception handling extension to the Haskell
lazy functional language. The implementation turned out to be very
easy but we had problems finding a viable semantics for our system.
The resulting semantics is a compromise between theoretical beauty
and practical utility.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Reid98exceptions
, abstract = {
Using a language without exception handling is like driving
a car with no brakes and no seatbelt --- things work fine until
something goes wrong. You also learn to drive rather carefully.
This paper describes an exception handling extension to the Haskell
lazy functional language. The implementation turned out to be very
easy but we had problems finding a viable semantics for our system.
The resulting semantics is a compromise between theoretical beauty
and practical utility.
}
, affiliation = {Yale University}
, ar_file = {Exceptions}
, ar_shortname = {Exceptions}
, author = {Alastair Reid}
, booktitle = {Yale University Research Report YALE/DCS/RR-1178}
, file = {exceptions98.pdf}
, location = {New Haven, CT, USA}
, month = {August}
, png = {exceptions98.png}
, title = {{H}andling {E}xceptions in {H}askell}
, year = {1998}
}
