On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Darrin Thompson wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Michael Snoyman
> wrote:
> > Comments are most welcome. I would like this to be a suitable replacement
> > for the ubiquitous Maybe, (Either String) and ad-hoc Result data types so
> > often used to report
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Michael Snoyman wrote:
> Comments are most welcome. I would like this to be a suitable replacement
> for the ubiquitous Maybe, (Either String) and ad-hoc Result data types so
> often used to report a failure. I'd be very happy to improve the package for
> the gener
Hello,
I'm happy to announce the first release of the attempt package[1]. It is
meant to solve the "how should I represent a failure" issue. It is based on
extensible exceptions and provides a monad, a monad transformers and helper
functions to replace many standard, unsafe functions like head. Th