Proposal: merge either into transformers

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Edward Kmett wrote:

> If you can get the extra combinators into transformers, I might be able to
> offer a C.M.T.E.Compat module that you could import along with C.M.T.E to
> get the new API across those intermediate versions, but I've yet to adopt
> this practice for the other transformers modules. If someone wanted to toss
> a patch at transformers-compat that added .Compat modules with the changes
> to the transformers API over time, (like adding reader, state, writer
> combinators), I'd probably take the patch, but I don't have a definitive
> list of what they are and the design would involve some compromises.

I found another solution.

Gabriel Gonzalez's errors package already had much of what I needed and he
accepted a PR today to add:

   handleExceptT :: (Exception e, Functor m, MonadCatch m) => (e -> x) -> m a -> ExceptT x m a
   handleExceptT handler = bimapExceptT handler id . ExceptT . try

The names Gabriel uses are slightly different from what I'm used to
but the types are as expected :).

Cheers,
Erik
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