[Haskell-cafe] Generalizing catMaybes

Brandon S Allbery KF8NH allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Sat Jan 8 17:53:30 CET 2011


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On 1/8/11 07:11 , Conor McBride wrote:
> On 8 Jan 2011, at 11:14, Henning Thielemann wrote:
>> For me, the solutions of Dave Menendez make most sense: Generalize Maybe
>> to Foldable and List to MonadPlus.
> 
> What has it to do with monads? There's no bind in sight.
> 
> Alternative is certainly a more general alternative, but then I
> would say that, wouldn't I? Even that seems a tad too much.

That was my thought too, and no, I didn't actually test first, just tried to
think out what he was doing.  Bad idea when half asleep :/

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