On 02/08/10 15:14, Tom Davies wrote:
I find it convenient sometimes to convert a Maybe value to an Either thus
(excuse the syntax, it's CAL, not Haskell):
maybeToEither :: a -> Maybe b -> Either a b;
maybeToEither errorValue = maybe (Left errorValue) (\x -> Right x);
but that seemingly obvious function isn't in Hoogle, AFAICT, so perhaps there's
some other approach?
I just uploaded djinn-th [1], a fork of Lennart Augustsson's djinn [2]
which uses TemplateHaskell to do things like:
{-# LANGUAGE TemplateHaskell, ScopedTypeVariables #-}
import Language.Haskell.Djinn (djinnD)
$(djinnD "maybeToEither" [t|forall a b . a -> Maybe b -> Either a b|])
main = print . map (maybeToEither "foo") $ [Nothing, Just "bar"]
and get some results, if not always the one you intended.
[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/djinn-th
[2] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/djinn
Thanks,
Claude
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