It converts from Abortable (Either a b) to Either a (Abortable b).

My guess at their probable intent was that this operation tends to error without aborting more often than it errors from an abort, so they put the error on the outside so they can check the common case more easily.

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 2:04 PM Dimitri DeFigueiredo <defigueiredo@ucdavis.edu> wrote:

Hello,

Can anyone shed a light on the proper way to write the function below.
It looks pretty standard, but it's not clear to me what it is?

data Abortable res = Aborted | Executed res deriving Functor -- i.e. Maybe

abortableThroughEither :: Abortable (Either a b) -> Either a (Abortable b)
abortableThroughEither Aborted = Right Aborted
abortableThroughEither (Executed (Left a)) = Left a
abortableThroughEither (Executed (Right b)) = Right (Executed b)

Thanks!

Dimitri

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