[Haskell-beginners] Date Time in Haskell

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 05/14/2015 06:25 AM, Kostiantyn Rybnikov wrote:
> Hi Dananji!
> 
> First of all, for more explicit failure-handling I suggest using "readMay"
> from package "safe" [0] instead of "read" whenever possible.

This is always a good idea, and someone finally added it to the base
library (in 4.6.0.0) as "readMaybe".

  ghci> import Text.Read ( readMaybe )
  ghci> readMaybe "Hello, world!" :: Maybe Integer
  Nothing