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exceptional: A type for pure code that can fail.

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This is a very simple type:

data Exceptional x
  = Failure String
  | Success x

It's much like Maybe, except instead of Nothing, we have Failure String.

A comparison could also be made to Either String. I made this library because I was dissatisfied with the Monad instance for Either. In this type, fail = Failure. It's rather simple.

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Dependencies base (>=4 && <5) [details]
License BSD-2-Clause
Copyright Copyright (c) 2015, Peter Harpending.
Author Peter Harpending
Maintainer peter@harpending.org
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Home page https://github.com/pharpend/exceptional
Source repo head: git clone https://github.com/pharpend/exceptional.git -b master
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Readme for exceptional-0.1.0.0

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exceptional
===========

This is a Haskell library that exists to house a type:

```haskell
data Exceptional x
  = Failure String
  | Success x
```

It's much like `Maybe`, except instead of `Nothing`, we have `Failure
String`.

A comparison could also be made to `Either String`. I made this
library because I was dissatisfied with the `Monad` instance for
`Either`. In this type, `fail = Failure`. It's rather simple.

Installing
----------

    cabal install exceptional

Or, add `exceptional` to the `build-depends` field in your `.cabal`
file.