# Safe [](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/safe) [](https://travis-ci.org/ndmitchell/safe)
A library wrapping `Prelude`/`Data.List` functions that can throw exceptions, such as `head` and `!!`. Each unsafe function has up to four variants, e.g. with `tail`:
* tail :: [a] -> [a], raises an error on `tail []`.
* tailMay :: [a] -> Maybe [a], turns errors into `Nothing`.
* tailDef :: [a] -> [a] -> [a], takes a default to return on errors.
* tailNote :: String -> [a] -> [a], takes an extra argument which supplements the error message.
* tailSafe :: [a] -> [a], returns some sensible default if possible, `[]` in the case of `tail`.
This package is divided into three modules:
* `Safe` contains safe variants of `Prelude` and `Data.List` functions.
* `Safe.Foldable` contains safe variants of `Foldable` functions.
* `Safe.Exact` creates crashing versions of functions like `zip` (errors if the lists are not equal) and `take` (errors if there are not enough elements), then wraps them to provide safe variants.