Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Yeah, but if the Haskell runtime has code to handle printing out a 
> human-readable error message on an unhandled exception, why can't it 
> also run some finalisers? This is pretty basic stuff!

Yep, true. I didn't realize you meant "exited cleanly due to an 
unhandled exception." I thought you meant "crashed out due to a signal, 
or running out of memory, or some such."

I suppose you could theoretically do a final GC and finalize before you 
exited (but perhaps before you printed the exception stack?), but I 
think at that point you're already pretty screwed. :-)

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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