[Haskell-cafe] A Question about IO monad

[Nikita Karetnikov]

>> A tiny nitpick: you can get a total function if you return a default
>> value instead of erroring out.
>>
>>
> What default value would you return for the function `Maybe a -> a`?

You can do it with unsafeCoerce, but there are restrictions.  And that's
not what I meant, sorry.  I mentally substituted an a for an Int:

f :: Maybe Int -> Int
f (Just x) = x
f Nothing  = 0

And there's also the maybe function.
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