
26 Feb
2015
26 Feb
'15
9:18 a.m.
Hi, today I was a bit surprised that apparently there is no easy way how to safely get the head element of `Seq` in a point-free way. Of course there is `viewl`, but it seems the data type has no folding function (something like 'foldViewL :: b -> (a -> Seq a -> b) -> b`. Is there any existing function like `Seq a -> Maybe a` to safely retrieve the head (or last) element? If not, I'd suggest to add headMaybe :: (Foldable t) => t a -> Maybe a headMaybe = getFirst . foldMap (First . Just) and similarly lastMaybe to Data.Foldable. Thanks, Petr