[Haskell-cafe] Data.Map add only if not exist and return true if added

[John Ky]

Hi,

I'm looking for a function for Data.Map that will insert a new key and value
into the map if the key doesn't already exist in the map.  When the key
already exists, I don't want the value updated in the map.  Additionally, I
want to know whether the key/value was inserted or not so that I can return
that fact as a boolean from my function.

I can't work out which function in Data.Map is suitable for this task and I
wanted to avoid two lookups.

Thanks,

-John
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