Failure-handling as fundamental

Ulrich Hobelmann u.hobelmann@tu-bs.de
Mon Feb 4 03:13:02 2002


Actually all this is not only similar to Unix piping, but lazy
evaluation in general.
Unix programs might be encoded with monads, like `Maybe'. (this is
either `Just <foo>'
or `Nothing'). So depending on success or failure a monadic OR would
just continue or abort.
Regards, Ulrich