Chapter 4. The Devil's in the Detail
In this chapter, we pull together knowledge and techniques from previous chapters and learn to apply those techniques in large and complex projects. In particular, we will use cabal-install and stack to help us cope with multi-file projects and even projects with multiple subprojects. We learn how, and especially how not, to throw and recover from exceptions in Haskell.
Having good test coverage is as important in a Haskell project as it is in projects written in any other language. But because Haskell's type-system is so expressive, the number of necessary test cases is greatly reduced. Also, new extensions for the type-system in GHC are constantly being experimented with. Consequently, there is a bunch of ...
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