exceptional: Essentially the Maybe type with error messages.

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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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Readme for exceptional-0.1.4.2

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exceptional

This is a Haskell library that exists to house a 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.

Installing

cabal install exceptional

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