haskell: Phase 16 — exception handling (catch/try/throwIO/evaluate/handle/throw)

hk-bind-exceptions! in eval.sx registers throwIO, throw, evaluate, catch,
try, handle, displayException. SomeException constructor pre-registered
in runtime.sx (arity 1, type SomeException).

throwIO and the existing error primitive both raise via SX `raise` with a
uniform "hk-error: msg" string. catch/try/handle parse it back into a
SomeException via hk-exception-of, which strips nested
'Unhandled exception: "..."' host wraps (CEK's host_error formatter) and
the "hk-error: " prefix.

catch and handle evaluate the handler outside the guard scope (build an
"ok"/"exn" outcome tag inside guard, then dispatch outside) so that a
re-throw from the handler propagates past this catch — matching Haskell
semantics rather than infinite-looping in the same guard.

14 unit tests in tests/exceptions.sx (catch success, catch error, try
Right/Left, handle, throwIO + catch/try, evaluate, nested catch, do-bind
through catch, branch on try result, IORef-mutating handler).

Conformance: safediv.hs (8/8) and trycatch.hs (8/8). Scoreboard now
285/285 tests, 36/36 programs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

lib/haskell/tests/exceptions.sx

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+;; Phase 16 — Exception handling unit tests.
+
+(hk-test
+  "catch — success path returns the action result"
+  (hk-deep-force
+    (hk-run
+      "main = catch (return 42) (\\(SomeException m) -> return 0)"))
+  (list "IO" 42))
+
+(hk-test
+  "catch — error caught, handler receives message"
+  (hk-deep-force
+    (hk-run
+      "main = catch (error \"boom\") (\\(SomeException m) -> return m)"))
+  (list "IO" "boom"))
+
+(hk-test
+  "try — success returns Right v"
+  (hk-deep-force
+    (hk-run "main = try (return 42)"))
+  (list "IO" (list "Right" 42)))
+
+(hk-test
+  "try — error returns Left (SomeException msg)"
+  (hk-deep-force
+    (hk-run "main = try (error \"oops\")"))
+  (list "IO" (list "Left" (list "SomeException" "oops"))))
+
+(hk-test
+  "handle — flip catch — caught error message"
+  (hk-deep-force
+    (hk-run
+      "main = handle (\\(SomeException m) -> return m) (error \"hot\")"))
+  (list "IO" "hot"))
+
+(hk-test
+  "throwIO + catch — handler sees the SomeException"
+  (hk-deep-force
+    (hk-run
+      "main = catch (throwIO (SomeException \"bang\")) (\\(SomeException m) -> return m)"))
+  (list "IO" "bang"))
+
+(hk-test
+  "throwIO + try — Left side"
+  (hk-deep-force
+    (hk-run
+      "main = try (throwIO (SomeException \"x\"))"))
+  (list "IO" (list "Left" (list "SomeException" "x"))))
+
+(hk-test
+  "evaluate — pure value returns IO v"
+  (hk-deep-force
+    (hk-run "main = evaluate (1 + 2 + 3)"))
+  (list "IO" 6))
+
+(hk-test
+  "evaluate — error surfaces as catchable exception"
+  (hk-deep-force
+    (hk-run
+      "main = catch (evaluate (error \"deep\")) (\\(SomeException m) -> return m)"))
+  (list "IO" "deep"))
+
+(hk-test
+  "nested catch — inner handler runs first"
+  (hk-deep-force
+    (hk-run
+      "main = catch (catch (error \"inner\") (\\(SomeException m) -> error (m ++ \"-rethrown\"))) (\\(SomeException m) -> return m)"))
+  (list "IO" "inner-rethrown"))
+
+(hk-test
+  "catch chain — handler can succeed inside IO"
+  (hk-deep-force
+    (hk-run
+      "main = do { x <- catch (error \"e1\") (\\(SomeException m) -> return 100); return (x + 1) }"))
+  (list "IO" 101))
+
+(hk-test
+  "try then bind on Right"
+  (hk-deep-force
+    (hk-run
+      "branch (Right v) = return (v * 2)
+branch (Left _) = return 0
+main = do { r <- try (return 21); branch r }"))
+  (list "IO" 42))
+
+(hk-test
+  "try then bind on Left"
+  (hk-deep-force
+    (hk-run
+      "branch (Right _) = return \"ok\"
+branch (Left (SomeException m)) = return m
+main = do { r <- try (error \"failed\"); branch r }"))
+  (list "IO" "failed"))
+
+(hk-test
+  "catch — handler can use closed-over IORef"
+  (hk-deep-force
+    (hk-run
+      "import qualified Data.IORef as IORef
+main = do
+  r <- IORef.newIORef 0
+  catch (error \"x\") (\\(SomeException m) -> IORef.writeIORef r 7)
+  v <- IORef.readIORef r
+  return v"))
+  (list "IO" 7))

lib/haskell/tests/program-safediv.sx

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+;; safediv.hs — safe division using catch (Phase 16 conformance).
+
+(define
+  hk-safediv-source
+  "safeDiv :: Int -> Int -> IO Int
+safeDiv _ 0 = throwIO (SomeException \"division by zero\")
+safeDiv x y = return (x `div` y)
+
+guarded :: Int -> Int -> IO Int
+guarded x y = catch (safeDiv x y) (\\(SomeException _) -> return 0)
+
+reason :: Int -> Int -> IO String
+reason x y = catch (safeDiv x y `seq` return \"ok\")
+  (\\(SomeException m) -> return m)
+
+bothBranches :: Int -> Int -> IO Int
+bothBranches x y = do
+  v <- catch (safeDiv x y) (\\(SomeException _) -> return (-1))
+  return (v + 100)
+
+")
+
+(hk-test
+  "safediv.hs — divide by non-zero"
+  (hk-deep-force
+    (hk-run
+      (str hk-safediv-source "main = guarded 10 2")))
+  (list "IO" 5))
+
+(hk-test
+  "safediv.hs — divide by zero returns 0"
+  (hk-deep-force
+    (hk-run
+      (str hk-safediv-source "main = guarded 10 0")))
+  (list "IO" 0))
+
+(hk-test
+  "safediv.hs — divide by zero — reason captured"
+  (hk-deep-force
+    (hk-run
+      (str hk-safediv-source "main = catch (safeDiv 1 0) (\\(SomeException m) -> return 0) >> reason 1 0")))
+  (list "IO" "division by zero"))
+
+(hk-test
+  "safediv.hs — bothBranches success path"
+  (hk-deep-force
+    (hk-run
+      (str hk-safediv-source "main = bothBranches 8 2")))
+  (list "IO" 104))
+
+(hk-test
+  "safediv.hs — bothBranches failure path"
+  (hk-deep-force
+    (hk-run
+      (str hk-safediv-source "main = bothBranches 8 0")))
+  (list "IO" 99))
+
+(hk-test
+  "safediv.hs — chained safeDiv with catch"
+  (hk-deep-force
+    (hk-run
+      (str hk-safediv-source
+        "main = do { a <- guarded 20 4; b <- guarded 7 0; return (a + b) }")))
+  (list "IO" 5))
+
+(hk-test
+  "safediv.hs — try then bind through Either"
+  (hk-deep-force
+    (hk-run
+      (str hk-safediv-source
+        "main = do { r <- try (safeDiv 1 0); case r of { Right v -> return v; Left (SomeException m) -> return 999 } }")))
+  (list "IO" 999))
+
+(hk-test
+  "safediv.hs — handle (flip catch)"
+  (hk-deep-force
+    (hk-run
+      (str hk-safediv-source
+        "main = handle (\\(SomeException _) -> return 0) (safeDiv 5 0)")))
+  (list "IO" 0))

lib/haskell/tests/program-trycatch.sx

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+;; trycatch.hs — try pattern: branch on Left/Right (Phase 16 conformance).
+
+(define
+  hk-trycatch-source
+  "parseInt :: String -> IO Int
+parseInt \"zero\" = return 0
+parseInt \"one\"  = return 1
+parseInt \"two\"  = return 2
+parseInt s = throwIO (SomeException (\"unknown: \" ++ s))
+
+describe :: Either SomeException Int -> String
+describe (Right v) = \"got \" ++ show v
+describe (Left (SomeException m)) = \"err: \" ++ m
+
+trial :: String -> IO String
+trial s = do
+  r <- try (parseInt s)
+  return (describe r)
+
+run3 :: String -> String -> String -> IO [String]
+run3 a b c = do
+  ra <- trial a
+  rb <- trial b
+  rc <- trial c
+  return [ra, rb, rc]
+
+")
+
+(hk-test
+  "trycatch.hs — Right branch"
+  (hk-deep-force
+    (hk-run
+      (str hk-trycatch-source "main = trial \"one\"")))
+  (list "IO" "got 1"))
+
+(hk-test
+  "trycatch.hs — Left branch with message"
+  (hk-deep-force
+    (hk-run
+      (str hk-trycatch-source "main = trial \"banana\"")))
+  (list "IO" "err: unknown: banana"))
+
+(hk-test
+  "trycatch.hs — chain over three inputs, all good"
+  (hk-deep-force
+    (hk-run
+      (str hk-trycatch-source "main = run3 \"zero\" \"one\" \"two\"")))
+  (list "IO"
+    (list ":" "got 0"
+      (list ":" "got 1"
+        (list ":" "got 2"
+          (list "[]"))))))
+
+(hk-test
+  "trycatch.hs — chain over three inputs, mixed"
+  (hk-deep-force
+    (hk-run
+      (str hk-trycatch-source "main = run3 \"zero\" \"qux\" \"two\"")))
+  (list "IO"
+    (list ":" "got 0"
+      (list ":" "err: unknown: qux"
+        (list ":" "got 2"
+          (list "[]"))))))
+
+(hk-test
+  "trycatch.hs — Left from throwIO carries message"
+  (hk-deep-force
+    (hk-run
+      (str hk-trycatch-source
+        "main = do { r <- try (throwIO (SomeException \"explicit\")); return (describe r) }")))
+  (list "IO" "err: explicit"))
+
+(hk-test
+  "trycatch.hs — Right preserves the int"
+  (hk-deep-force
+    (hk-run
+      (str hk-trycatch-source
+        "main = do { r <- try (return 42); return (describe r) }")))
+  (list "IO" "got 42"))
+
+(hk-test
+  "trycatch.hs — pattern-bind on Right inside do"
+  (hk-deep-force
+    (hk-run
+      (str hk-trycatch-source
+        "main = do { Right v <- try (parseInt \"two\"); return (v + 100) }")))
+  (list "IO" 102))
+
+(hk-test
+  "trycatch.hs — handle alias on parseInt failure"
+  (hk-deep-force
+    (hk-run
+      (str hk-trycatch-source
+        "main = handle (\\(SomeException m) -> return (\"caught: \" ++ m)) (parseInt \"nope\" >>= (\\v -> return (show v)))")))
+  (list "IO" "caught: unknown: nope"))