Proposal: Add NonEmpty constructors to the Prelude

Henning Thielemann lemming at henning-thielemann.de
Thu Jan 5 22:10:46 UTC 2017


On Thu, 5 Jan 2017, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote:

> -1 : I'm against this because NonEmpty is a special case of "lists with
> at least n elements", and n=1 doesn't feel like a particuar sweet spot.
> Once people are using NonEmpty everywhere, won't they need at least 2
> elements when using tail to get a NonEmpty, etc?

Btw. my non-empty package provides a NonEmpty constructor that can be 
nested, such that you can have lists with at least two elements.


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