Proposal: add fromRight and fromLeft to Data.Either

[David Feuer]

-1. I don't want to encourage this sort of bad coding practice practice
either. Keeping it inconvenient is fine by me.
On May 20, 2016 4:08 PM, "Anton Felix Lorenzen" <anfelor at posteo.de> wrote:

> When working with Either,
> I am often missing two simple functions:
> fromRight :: Either a b -> b
> fromLeft  :: Either a b -> a
>
> It has been implemented a couple of times:
> http://hayoo.fh-wedel.de/?query=fromRight
>
> But I don't want to depend on yet another library
> for such a basic function.
>
> Could it be added?
>
> Anton
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