[Haskell-cafe] Re: A GHC error message puzzle
rendel at Mathematik.Uni-Marburg.de
Sat Aug 14 18:05:42 EDT 2010
Simon Marlow wrote:
>>> Really hClose shouldn't complain about a finalized handle, I'll see if
>>> I can fix that.
>> That sounds like a work-around to me, not a fix, because it would not
>> fix more complicated exception handlers.
> I don't think there's a problem with more complicated exception
> handlers. The fix is to make the finalized Handle look like a closed
> Handle; it's a fix to the finalizer, not the exception handler, so it's
> not a workaround for this one particular symptom.
Given the documentation of bracket, I would expect the following to
write to the file.
main = bracket
(openFile "output" WriteMode)
(\handle -> do
hPutStr handle "I want this to be written in any case"
blackhole = blackhole
But currently, hPutStr complains about a finalized handle, and with your
fix, it would complain about a closed handle, which is hardly better.
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