Copyright | (c) The University of Glasgow 1997-2002 |
---|---|
License | see libraries/base/LICENSE |
Maintainer | ghc-devs@haskell.org |
Stability | internal |
Portability | non-portable (GHC Extensions) |
Safe Haskell | Safe-Inferred |
Language | Haskell2010 |
GHC.Maybe
Description
The Maybe
type.
Documentation
The Maybe
type encapsulates an optional value. A value of type
either contains a value of type Maybe
aa
(represented as
),
or it is empty (represented as Just
aNothing
). Using Maybe
is a good way to
deal with errors or exceptional cases without resorting to drastic
measures such as error
.
The Maybe
type is also a monad. It is a simple kind of error
monad, where all errors are represented by Nothing
. A richer
error monad can be built using the Either
type.
Instances
Instances details
Instance details
Defined in Data.Functor.Classes
Instance details
Defined in Data.Functor.Classes
Methods
liftReadsPrec :: (Int -> ReadS a) -> ReadS [a] -> Int -> ReadS (Maybe a) Source #
liftReadList :: (Int -> ReadS a) -> ReadS [a] -> ReadS [Maybe a] Source #
liftReadPrec :: ReadPrec a -> ReadPrec [a] -> ReadPrec (Maybe a) Source #
liftReadListPrec :: ReadPrec a -> ReadPrec [a] -> ReadPrec [Maybe a] Source #
Picks the leftmost Just
value, or, alternatively, Nothing
.
Since: base-2.1
Instance details
Defined in GHC.Internal.Data.Foldable
Methods
fold :: Monoid m => Maybe m -> m Source #
foldMap :: Monoid m => (a -> m) -> Maybe a -> m Source #
foldMap' :: Monoid m => (a -> m) -> Maybe a -> m Source #
foldr :: (a -> b -> b) -> b -> Maybe a -> b Source #
foldr' :: (a -> b -> b) -> b -> Maybe a -> b Source #
foldl :: (b -> a -> b) -> b -> Maybe a -> b Source #
foldl' :: (b -> a -> b) -> b -> Maybe a -> b Source #
foldr1 :: (a -> a -> a) -> Maybe a -> a Source #
foldl1 :: (a -> a -> a) -> Maybe a -> a Source #
toList :: Maybe a -> [a] Source #
null :: Maybe a -> Bool Source #
length :: Maybe a -> Int Source #
elem :: Eq a => a -> Maybe a -> Bool Source #
maximum :: Ord a => Maybe a -> a Source #
minimum :: Ord a => Maybe a -> a Source #
Instance details
Defined in GHC.Internal.Data.Traversable
Instance details
Defined in GHC.Internal.Generics
Associated Types
Instance details
Defined in GHC.Internal.Generics
Instance details
Defined in GHC.Internal.TH.Lift
Lift a semigroup into Maybe
forming a Monoid
according to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoid: "Any semigroup S
may be
turned into a monoid simply by adjoining an element e
not in S
and defining e*e = e
and e*s = s = s*e
for all s ∈ S
."
Since 4.11.0: constraint on inner a
value generalised from
Monoid
to Semigroup
.
Since: base-2.1
Instance details
Defined in GHC.Internal.Base
Since: base-4.9.0.0
Instance details
Defined in GHC.Internal.Base
Since: base-4.0.0.0
Instance details
Defined in GHC.Internal.Data.Data
Methods
gfoldl :: (forall d b. Data d => c (d -> b) -> d -> c b) -> (forall g. g -> c g) -> Maybe a -> c (Maybe a) Source #
gunfold :: (forall b r. Data b => c (b -> r) -> c r) -> (forall r. r -> c r) -> Constr -> c (Maybe a) Source #
toConstr :: Maybe a -> Constr Source #
dataTypeOf :: Maybe a -> DataType Source #
dataCast1 :: Typeable t => (forall d. Data d => c (t d)) -> Maybe (c (Maybe a)) Source #
dataCast2 :: Typeable t => (forall d e. (Data d, Data e) => c (t d e)) -> Maybe (c (Maybe a)) Source #
gmapT :: (forall b. Data b => b -> b) -> Maybe a -> Maybe a Source #
gmapQl :: (r -> r' -> r) -> r -> (forall d. Data d => d -> r') -> Maybe a -> r Source #
gmapQr :: forall r r'. (r' -> r -> r) -> r -> (forall d. Data d => d -> r') -> Maybe a -> r Source #
gmapQ :: (forall d. Data d => d -> u) -> Maybe a -> [u] Source #
gmapQi :: Int -> (forall d. Data d => d -> u) -> Maybe a -> u Source #
gmapM :: Monad m => (forall d. Data d => d -> m d) -> Maybe a -> m (Maybe a) Source #
gmapMp :: MonadPlus m => (forall d. Data d => d -> m d) -> Maybe a -> m (Maybe a) Source #
gmapMo :: MonadPlus m => (forall d. Data d => d -> m d) -> Maybe a -> m (Maybe a) Source #
Instance details
Defined in GHC.Internal.Generics
Associated Types
Instance details
Defined in GHC.Internal.Generics
Since: base-4.9.0.0
Read a => Read (Maybe a) Source #Since: base-2.1
Instance details
Defined in GHC.Internal.Read
Since: base-2.1
Instance details
Defined in GHC.Internal.Show
Since: base-2.1
Instance details
Defined in GHC.Internal.Maybe
Since: base-2.1
Instance details
Defined in GHC.Internal.Maybe
Since: base-4.9.0.0
SingI a2 => SingI ('Just a2 :: Maybe a1)Since: base-4.9.0.0
type Rep1 Maybe Source #Since: base-4.6.0.0
Instance details
Defined in GHC.Internal.Generics
Since: base-4.6.0.0
Instance details
Defined in GHC.Internal.Generics