Libraries Digest, Vol 117, Issue 10

[Felipe Almeida Lessa]

IMNSHO, I think we should just add

-- | @whenJust = 'for_'@.  Executes the given action
-- when @Just@, execute nothing if @Nothing at .
whenJust :: Monad m => Maybe a -> (a -> m ()) -> m ()
whenJust = for_

to Data.Maybe.  Even if it's duplicating a functionality, it's a good
name that has been reinvented by many people.  Its docs may mention
for_ and teach the user that for_ is more generic etc.  People looking
for whenJust *will* look at Data.Maybe.  We don't lose much by adding
this function.

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Gwern Branwen <gwern at gwern.net> wrote:
> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Chris Seaton <chris at chrisseaton.com> wrote:
>> Perhaps we should have a dummy module in Hackage that includes commonly
>> searched for functions, but instead of actually implementing them the
>> documentation would say don't use this and suggest an alternative and
>> explains why. Then you could find them in Hoogle and Hackage seems to be
>> highly ranked on Google so they'd be found there as well.
>
> Or expand hlint to catch whenJust like constructs and suggest use of
> the alternative? We already did that for when 'void' was added, put in
> a suggestion looking for things like '>> return ()'
>
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-- 
Felipe.