core-program-0.6.2.2: Opinionated Haskell Interoperability
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Core.System.Base

Description

Re-exports of Haskell base and GHC system libraries.

Synopsis

Input/Output

from Control.Monad.IO.Class

Re-exported from Control.Monad.IO.Class in base:

liftIO :: MonadIO m => IO a -> m a #

Lift a computation from the IO monad. This allows us to run IO computations in any monadic stack, so long as it supports these kinds of operations (i.e. IO is the base monad for the stack).

Example

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import Control.Monad.Trans.State -- from the "transformers" library

printState :: Show s => StateT s IO ()
printState = do
  state <- get
  liftIO $ print state

Had we omitted liftIO, we would have ended up with this error:

• Couldn't match type ‘IO’ with ‘StateT s IO’
 Expected type: StateT s IO ()
   Actual type: IO ()

The important part here is the mismatch between StateT s IO () and IO ().

Luckily, we know of a function that takes an IO a and returns an (m a): liftIO, enabling us to run the program and see the expected results:

> evalStateT printState "hello"
"hello"

> evalStateT printState 3
3

class Monad m => MonadIO (m :: Type -> Type) #

Monads in which IO computations may be embedded. Any monad built by applying a sequence of monad transformers to the IO monad will be an instance of this class.

Instances should satisfy the following laws, which state that liftIO is a transformer of monads:

Minimal complete definition

liftIO

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MonadIO IO

Since: base-4.9.0.0

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Defined in Control.Monad.IO.Class

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liftIO :: IO a -> IO a #

MonadIO Q 
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Defined in Language.Haskell.TH.Syntax

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liftIO :: IO a -> Q a #

MonadIO (Program τ) Source # 
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Defined in Core.Program.Context

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liftIO :: IO a -> Program τ a #

(Error e, MonadIO m) => MonadIO (ErrorT e m) 
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Defined in Control.Monad.Trans.Error

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liftIO :: IO a -> ErrorT e m a #

MonadIO m => MonadIO (ReaderT r m) 
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Defined in Control.Monad.Trans.Reader

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liftIO :: IO a -> ReaderT r m a #

from System.IO

Re-exported from System.IO in base:

data Handle #

Haskell defines operations to read and write characters from and to files, represented by values of type Handle. Each value of this type is a handle: a record used by the Haskell run-time system to manage I/O with file system objects. A handle has at least the following properties:

  • whether it manages input or output or both;
  • whether it is open, closed or semi-closed;
  • whether the object is seekable;
  • whether buffering is disabled, or enabled on a line or block basis;
  • a buffer (whose length may be zero).

Most handles will also have a current I/O position indicating where the next input or output operation will occur. A handle is readable if it manages only input or both input and output; likewise, it is writable if it manages only output or both input and output. A handle is open when first allocated. Once it is closed it can no longer be used for either input or output, though an implementation cannot re-use its storage while references remain to it. Handles are in the Show and Eq classes. The string produced by showing a handle is system dependent; it should include enough information to identify the handle for debugging. A handle is equal according to == only to itself; no attempt is made to compare the internal state of different handles for equality.

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Show Handle

Since: base-4.1.0.0

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Defined in GHC.IO.Handle.Types

Eq Handle

Since: base-4.1.0.0

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Defined in GHC.IO.Handle.Types

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(==) :: Handle -> Handle -> Bool #

(/=) :: Handle -> Handle -> Bool #

data IOMode #

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Enum IOMode

Since: base-4.2.0.0

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Defined in GHC.IO.IOMode

Ix IOMode

Since: base-4.2.0.0

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Defined in GHC.IO.IOMode

Read IOMode

Since: base-4.2.0.0

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Defined in GHC.IO.IOMode

Show IOMode

Since: base-4.2.0.0

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Defined in GHC.IO.IOMode

Eq IOMode

Since: base-4.2.0.0

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Defined in GHC.IO.IOMode

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(==) :: IOMode -> IOMode -> Bool #

(/=) :: IOMode -> IOMode -> Bool #

Ord IOMode

Since: base-4.2.0.0

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Defined in GHC.IO.IOMode

withFile :: FilePath -> IOMode -> (Handle -> IO r) -> IO r #

hFlush :: Handle -> IO () #

The action hFlush hdl causes any items buffered for output in handle hdl to be sent immediately to the operating system.

This operation may fail with:

  • isFullError if the device is full;
  • isPermissionError if a system resource limit would be exceeded. It is unspecified whether the characters in the buffer are discarded or retained under these circumstances.

unsafePerformIO :: IO a -> a #

This is the "back door" into the IO monad, allowing IO computation to be performed at any time. For this to be safe, the IO computation should be free of side effects and independent of its environment.

If the I/O computation wrapped in unsafePerformIO performs side effects, then the relative order in which those side effects take place (relative to the main I/O trunk, or other calls to unsafePerformIO) is indeterminate. Furthermore, when using unsafePerformIO to cause side-effects, you should take the following precautions to ensure the side effects are performed as many times as you expect them to be. Note that these precautions are necessary for GHC, but may not be sufficient, and other compilers may require different precautions:

  • Use {-# NOINLINE foo #-} as a pragma on any function foo that calls unsafePerformIO. If the call is inlined, the I/O may be performed more than once.
  • Use the compiler flag -fno-cse to prevent common sub-expression elimination being performed on the module, which might combine two side effects that were meant to be separate. A good example is using multiple global variables (like test in the example below).
  • Make sure that the either you switch off let-floating (-fno-full-laziness), or that the call to unsafePerformIO cannot float outside a lambda. For example, if you say: f x = unsafePerformIO (newIORef []) you may get only one reference cell shared between all calls to f. Better would be f x = unsafePerformIO (newIORef [x]) because now it can't float outside the lambda.

It is less well known that unsafePerformIO is not type safe. For example:

    test :: IORef [a]
    test = unsafePerformIO $ newIORef []

    main = do
            writeIORef test [42]
            bang <- readIORef test
            print (bang :: [Char])

This program will core dump. This problem with polymorphic references is well known in the ML community, and does not arise with normal monadic use of references. There is no easy way to make it impossible once you use unsafePerformIO. Indeed, it is possible to write coerce :: a -> b with the help of unsafePerformIO. So be careful!

Exception handling

class (Typeable e, Show e) => Exception e where #

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

Minimal complete definition

Nothing

Methods

toException :: e -> SomeException #

fromException :: SomeException -> Maybe e #

displayException :: e -> String #

Render this exception value in a human-friendly manner.

Default implementation: show.

Since: base-4.8.0.0

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Exception Void

Since: base-4.8.0.0

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Defined in Data.Void

Exception ArithException

Since: base-4.0.0.0

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Defined in GHC.Exception.Type

Exception SomeException

Since: base-3.0

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Defined in GHC.Exception.Type

Exception AllocationLimitExceeded

Since: base-4.8.0.0

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Defined in GHC.IO.Exception

Exception ArrayException

Since: base-4.1.0.0

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Defined in GHC.IO.Exception

Exception AssertionFailed

Since: base-4.1.0.0

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Defined in GHC.IO.Exception

Exception AsyncException

Since: base-4.7.0.0

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Defined in GHC.IO.Exception

Exception BlockedIndefinitelyOnMVar

Since: base-4.1.0.0

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Defined in GHC.IO.Exception

Exception BlockedIndefinitelyOnSTM

Since: base-4.1.0.0

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Defined in GHC.IO.Exception

Exception CompactionFailed

Since: base-4.10.0.0

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Defined in GHC.IO.Exception

Exception Deadlock

Since: base-4.1.0.0

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Defined in GHC.IO.Exception

Exception ExitCode

Since: base-4.1.0.0

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Defined in GHC.IO.Exception

Exception FixIOException

Since: base-4.11.0.0

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Defined in GHC.IO.Exception

Exception IOException

Since: base-4.1.0.0

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Defined in GHC.IO.Exception

Exception SomeAsyncException

Since: base-4.7.0.0

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Defined in GHC.IO.Exception

Exception InvalidCommandLine Source # 
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Defined in Core.Program.Arguments

Exception Boom Source # 
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Defined in Core.Program.Exceptions

Exception AsyncExceptionWrapper 
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Defined in Control.Exception.Safe

Exception StringException 
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Defined in Control.Exception.Safe

Exception SyncExceptionWrapper 
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Defined in Control.Exception.Safe

Exception ByteStringOutputException 
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Defined in System.Process.Typed

Exception ExitCodeException 
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Defined in System.Process.Typed

data SomeException #

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.

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Exception SomeException

Since: base-3.0

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Defined in GHC.Exception.Type

Show SomeException

Since: base-3.0

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Defined in GHC.Exception.Type