Copyright | (c) The University of Glasgow 1998-2002 |
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License | see libraries/base/LICENSE |
Maintainer | cvs-ghc@haskell.org |
Stability | internal |
Portability | non-portable (GHC extensions) |
Safe Haskell | Trustworthy |
Language | Haskell2010 |
Exceptions and exception-handling functions.
Synopsis
- class (Typeable e, Show e) => Exception e where
- toException :: e -> SomeException
- fromException :: SomeException -> Maybe e
- displayException :: e -> String
- data SomeException = forall e.Exception e => SomeException e
- data ArithException
- divZeroException :: SomeException
- overflowException :: SomeException
- ratioZeroDenomException :: SomeException
- underflowException :: SomeException
Documentation
class (Typeable e, Show e) => Exception e where Source #
Any type that you wish to throw or catch as an exception must be an
instance of the Exception
class. The simplest case is a new exception
type directly below the root:
data MyException = ThisException | ThatException deriving Show instance Exception MyException
The default method definitions in the Exception
class do what we need
in this case. You can now throw and catch ThisException
and
ThatException
as exceptions:
*Main> throw ThisException `catch` \e -> putStrLn ("Caught " ++ show (e :: MyException)) Caught ThisException
In more complicated examples, you may wish to define a whole hierarchy of exceptions:
--------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Make the root exception type for all the exceptions in a compiler data SomeCompilerException = forall e . Exception e => SomeCompilerException e instance Show SomeCompilerException where show (SomeCompilerException e) = show e instance Exception SomeCompilerException compilerExceptionToException :: Exception e => e -> SomeException compilerExceptionToException = toException . SomeCompilerException compilerExceptionFromException :: Exception e => SomeException -> Maybe e compilerExceptionFromException x = do SomeCompilerException a <- fromException x cast a --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Make a subhierarchy for exceptions in the frontend of the compiler data SomeFrontendException = forall e . Exception e => SomeFrontendException e instance Show SomeFrontendException where show (SomeFrontendException e) = show e instance Exception SomeFrontendException where toException = compilerExceptionToException fromException = compilerExceptionFromException frontendExceptionToException :: Exception e => e -> SomeException frontendExceptionToException = toException . SomeFrontendException frontendExceptionFromException :: Exception e => SomeException -> Maybe e frontendExceptionFromException x = do SomeFrontendException a <- fromException x cast a --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Make an exception type for a particular frontend compiler exception data MismatchedParentheses = MismatchedParentheses deriving Show instance Exception MismatchedParentheses where toException = frontendExceptionToException fromException = frontendExceptionFromException
We can now catch a MismatchedParentheses
exception as
MismatchedParentheses
, SomeFrontendException
or
SomeCompilerException
, but not other types, e.g. IOException
:
*Main> throw MismatchedParentheses `catch` \e -> putStrLn ("Caught " ++ show (e :: MismatchedParentheses)) Caught MismatchedParentheses *Main> throw MismatchedParentheses `catch` \e -> putStrLn ("Caught " ++ show (e :: SomeFrontendException)) Caught MismatchedParentheses *Main> throw MismatchedParentheses `catch` \e -> putStrLn ("Caught " ++ show (e :: SomeCompilerException)) Caught MismatchedParentheses *Main> throw MismatchedParentheses `catch` \e -> putStrLn ("Caught " ++ show (e :: IOException)) *** Exception: MismatchedParentheses
Nothing
toException :: e -> SomeException Source #
fromException :: SomeException -> Maybe e Source #
displayException :: e -> String Source #
Render this exception value in a human-friendly manner.
Default implementation:
.show
Since: base-4.8.0.0
Instances
data SomeException Source #
The SomeException
type is the root of the exception type hierarchy.
When an exception of type e
is thrown, behind the scenes it is
encapsulated in a SomeException
.
forall e.Exception e => SomeException e |
Instances
Show SomeException # | Since: base-3.0 |
Defined in GHC.Exception.Type | |
Exception SomeException # | Since: base-3.0 |
Defined in GHC.Exception.Type |
data ArithException Source #
Arithmetic exceptions.
Overflow | |
Underflow | |
LossOfPrecision | |
DivideByZero | |
Denormal | |
RatioZeroDenominator | Since: base-4.6.0.0 |
Instances
Eq ArithException # | Since: base-3.0 |
Defined in GHC.Exception.Type (==) :: ArithException -> ArithException -> Bool Source # (/=) :: ArithException -> ArithException -> Bool Source # | |
Ord ArithException # | Since: base-3.0 |
Defined in GHC.Exception.Type compare :: ArithException -> ArithException -> Ordering Source # (<) :: ArithException -> ArithException -> Bool Source # (<=) :: ArithException -> ArithException -> Bool Source # (>) :: ArithException -> ArithException -> Bool Source # (>=) :: ArithException -> ArithException -> Bool Source # max :: ArithException -> ArithException -> ArithException Source # min :: ArithException -> ArithException -> ArithException Source # | |
Show ArithException # | Since: base-4.0.0.0 |
Defined in GHC.Exception.Type | |
Exception ArithException # | Since: base-4.0.0.0 |
Defined in GHC.Exception.Type |