[Haskell-cafe] Library for overloaded indexing (a la (!))

[William Yager]

That's completely different behavior than indexing, and introduces even
more syntactic noise if you just want to index.

If I mis-index a vector, I don't want it to fail silently with mempty; I
want it to fail loudly. What you've described (default value on
out-of-bounds access) is not correct for most use cases. Sometimes
exceptions are the right behavior.

--Will


On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 11:13 PM, Nikita Karetnikov <nikita at karetnikov.org>
wrote:

> > getSum $ [1,2,3,4] ^. ix 42
> > => 0
>
> Oh, one more thing: this is a bit different from ! or !! (in a good way)
> because it doesn't raise an exception.
>
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