[Haskell-beginners] 'read' throws; why not maybe or either?

[David McBride]

You might be interested in the 'safe' package.  It has a function in it
called readMay, along with a lot of other useful minor omissions from
prelude. http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Safe-0.1/docs/Safe.html


On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Patrick Redmond <plredmond at gmail.com>wrote:

> Is there a variation of 'read' which uses Maybe or Either to handle
> failure instead of an exception?
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