maybeRead in base

[Simon Hengel]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 10:31:19PM -0400, Tom Murphy wrote:
> It would be great to have maybeRead in base in time for the next Haskell
> Platform release. There's been talk about including it several times, but
> it's remained as a utility function in other libraries (Network.CGI, for
> example, if I'm remembering right).

It's in base-4.6.0.0, but it's called readMaybe (personally, I don't
like that name, but I guess it's for consistency with readEither).

Cheers,
Simon