[Haskell-cafe] Are there standard idioms for lazy, pure error handling?

[Ketil Malde]

Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts at googlemail.com> writes:

>> [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/failable-list

> Nice.

I agree this is needed (or rather, would be nice to standardise).  

Although I don't care for the cutesy naming suggested in the 'Train'
datatype, failable-list could be made more general.  Why is there a
specific constructor 'Done', instead of just allowing the user to select
a value of type 'e' (using 'Maybe b' if nothing else works)?

Perhaps we could also consider an infix notation, like:

  data TerminatedList a e = Then a (TerminatedList a e)
                          | Finally e

(So you could do e.g:  4 `Then` 5 `Then` 1 `Finally` "success!". Of
course, you might prefer symbols instead.) 

-k
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