Re: [Gtk2hs-devel] Comments incorrect for pixbufNewFromFile

[Duncan C. <dun...@wo...>]

On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 11:44 -0700, Adam Langley wrote:
> -- | Load an image synchonously.
> --
> -- * Use this function to load only small images as this call will block.
> --
> -- * If an error occurs, the function will return @Left (err,msg)@ where @err@
> --   is the error code and @msg@ is a human readable description
> --   of the error. If an error occurs which is not captured by any of
> --   those in 'PixbufError', an exception is thrown.
> --
> pixbufNewFromFile :: FilePath -> IO Pixbuf
> pixbufNewFromFile fname =
> 
> At some point, this appears to have changed from returning an Either
> to returning a straight Pixbuf.
> 
> Something is inconsistent somewhere ;)

Yep :-)

Feel free to send a patch correcting the documentation. You can double
check by looking at the code but I think it now throws a 'GError'
exception if an error occurs. 

Duncan