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1. Alternative (Imants Cekusins)
2. Re: Alternative (Oliver Charles)
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Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 11:55:06 +0100
From: Imants Cekusins <[email protected]>
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Subject: [Haskell-beginners] Alternative
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discovered this handy snippet today (duh :):
>>> foldl (<|>) Nothing [Nothing, Just 1, Nothing, Just 2]
Just 1
basically, pick first Just from a list of Maybes
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.9.0.0/docs/Control-Applicative.html#g:2
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Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 12:10:29 +0000
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If you want something even simpler:
asum [Nothing, Just True, Nothing, Just False]
>From Data.Foldable :)
On Wed, 28 Dec 2016, 10:56 am Imants Cekusins, <[email protected]> wrote:
> discovered this handy snippet today (duh :):
>
> >>> foldl (<|>) Nothing [Nothing, Just 1, Nothing, Just 2]
> Just 1
>
> basically, pick first Just from a list of Maybes
>
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> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.9.0.0/docs/Control-Applicative.html#g:2
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