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+Provides functions to throw and catch exceptions. Unlike the
+functions from Control.Exception, which work in IO, these work in
+any stack of monad transformers (from the transformers package) with
+IO as the base monad. You can extend this functionality to other
+monads, by creating an instance of the MonadCatchIO class. Warning:
+this package is deprecated. Use the exceptions package instead, if
+possible.
+
+After uninstalling, run this command to unregister the package from
+the ghc package database: ghc-pkg recache