[Haskell-cafe] Maybe to Either -- is there a better way?

[Claude Heiland-Allen]

On 02/08/10 15:14, Tom Davies wrote:
> I find it convenient sometimes to convert a Maybe value to an Either thus (excuse the syntax, it's CAL, not Haskell):
>
> maybeToEither :: a ->  Maybe b ->  Either a b;
> maybeToEither errorValue = maybe (Left errorValue) (\x ->  Right x);
>
> but that seemingly obvious function isn't in Hoogle, AFAICT, so perhaps there's some other approach?

I just uploaded djinn-th [1], a fork of Lennart Augustsson's djinn [2] 
which uses TemplateHaskell to do things like:

{-# LANGUAGE TemplateHaskell, ScopedTypeVariables #-}
import Language.Haskell.Djinn (djinnD)
$(djinnD "maybeToEither" [t|forall a b . a -> Maybe b ->  Either a b|])
main = print . map (maybeToEither "foo") $ [Nothing, Just "bar"]

and get some results, if not always the one you intended.


[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/djinn-th
[2] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/djinn


Thanks,


Claude
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