Re: Proposal: Add readMaybe (and possibly readEither) to Prelude, make Haddocks for read more cautionary

On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 10:10 AM, Simon Jakobi wrote:

There are quite a few packages [1] that define their private version of readMaybe, but I don't think that these should be counted as arguments _against_ adding the function to Prelude.

Also, those in that list that happen to import it from Text.Read rather than define it themselves would still work just fine. -Edward

Simon

[1] https://github.com/search?l=Haskell&q=readMaybe&type=Code