<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 10:10 AM, Simon Jakobi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simon.jakobi@googlemail.com" target="_blank">simon.jakobi@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">There are quite a few packages [1] that define their private version<br>
of readMaybe, but I don't think that these should be counted as<br>
arguments _against_ adding the function to Prelude.<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>Also, those in that list that happen to import it from Text.Read rather than define it themselves would still work just fine.</div><div><br></div><div>-Edward</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Simon<br>
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[1] <a href="https://github.com/search?l=Haskell&q=readMaybe&type=Code" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/search?l=<wbr>Haskell&q=readMaybe&type=Code</a><br>
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