[Haskell-cafe] Stupid question #374: why is MaybeT not in the standard library?

J. Garrett Morris jgmorris at cecs.pdx.edu
Tue Dec 23 02:01:33 EST 2008


On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Brian Hurt <bhurt at spnz.org> wrote:
> But I'm wondering why it's not in the standard library.  The standards
> committee just hasn't gotten around to it yet?  Or was there some discussion
> of this in the past on some (public) maillist, that my admittedly shallow
> googling failed to uncover, that someone could point me at?

It's equivalent to ErrorT ()  - but ErrorT String is almost always a
better option anyway.

 /g

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