On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 10:10 AM, Simon Jakobi <simon.jakobi@googlemail.com> 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