[Haskell-cafe] Does this function have a name?

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> "PB" == Paul Brauner <polux2001 at gmail.com> writes:

PB> Oops, there's a free variable in there, let me fix it:
PB> first f [] = Nothing
PB> first f (x:xs) = fmap (:xs) (f x) <|> fmap (x:) (first f xs)

If you break up the test from the modification (instead of fusing the
operation into 'f'), this sort of thing becomes quite easy to express
using lens:

  [1..10] & partsOf (traverse.filtered (>2))._head +~ 3

If the list has no elements >2, the operation is a no-op.

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