On Oct 12, 2013, at 2:47 PM, Stephen Tetley <stephen.tetley@gmail.com> wrote:

I agree, it seems a bit wasteful of operator names to start aliasing things that are already in idiomatic use.

As more get added to Base there are less to play with when you want to design a nice EDSL.

+1 to stemming the operator tide; -1 to Elvis.

The claim such operators make on the space of available identifiers has to be justified.

Prelude gives us 'maybe', and that meets most of my needs by itself.

Anthony

On 12 October 2013 13:48, Christopher Done <chrisdone@gmail.com> wrote:
I've never considered writing fromMaybe painful, personally.

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