On May 9, 2010, at 06:18 , Ben Millwood wrote:
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 7:27 AM, wren ng thornton <w...@freegeek.org> wrote:The only examples I can think of where we'd want 'fail'-able patterns areentirely pedagogical (and are insignificantly altered by not using 'fail'-able patterns). I can't think of any real code where it would actually help with clarity.You're not a fan of e.g. catMaybes xs = [x | Just x <- xs]
I've always had the feeling that if I need catMaybes, I haven't thought through the data representation (or possibly manipulation) fully.
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