Re: [Haskell-cafe] where to put general-purpose utility functions

headMaybe :: [a] -> Maybe a

Is this the same as Data.Maybe.maybeToList?

readMaybe :: Read a => String -> Maybe a

This has been added to base recently [1]. Cheers, Simon [1] https://github.com/ghc/packages-base/commit/0e1a02b96cfd03b8488e3ff4ce232466...