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| -rw-r--r-- | libraries/base/Control/Exception.hs | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libraries/base/Control/Exception.hs b/libraries/base/Control/Exception.hs index 88938e2ee2..93ba3d5f91 100644 --- a/libraries/base/Control/Exception.hs +++ b/libraries/base/Control/Exception.hs @@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ handled differently. Instead, you would probably want something like: > e <- tryJust (guard . isDoesNotExistError) (readFile f) > let str = either (const "") id e -There are occassions when you really do need to catch any sort of +There are occasions when you really do need to catch any sort of exception. However, in most cases this is just so you can do some cleaning up; you aren't actually interested in the exception itself. For example, if you open a file then you want to close it again, |