[Haskell-cafe] A function for Maybes

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Jan 25, 2007, at 9:15 , John Ky wrote:

> Is there a built-in function that already does this?
>
> foo :: (a -> b) -> Maybe a -> Maybe b
> foo f m
>   | isNothing m = Nothing
>   | otherwise = Just (f (fromJust m))

Nothing specific to Maybe, because the more general liftM (over  
monads) or fmap (over functors) already does it.

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