Fedora 14 Update: ghc-failure-0.1.0.1-1.fc14

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-18830
2010-12-11 23:34:24
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Name        : ghc-failure
Product     : Fedora 14
Version     : 0.1.0.1
Release     : 1.fc14
URL         : http://hackage.haskell.org/package/failure
Summary     : A simple type class for success/failure computations
Description :
A simple type class for success/failure computations.

This package provides the shared library.

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Update Information:

A simple type class for success/failure computations.

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The standard Either datatype suffers from a lack of monad and
applicative instances. To make matters worse, the mtl and
transformers packages provide orphan instances which conflict
with each other, as well as defining a transformer version
which has an usually unnecessary superclass constraint.

Besides these annoyances, there is another issue: there exist
two reasonable definitions of the Applicative instance for
Either: one the holds onto only the first Left value, or one
that appends all Left values together via a Monoid instance.
The former is compatible with the monad instance, while the
latter is not.

This package defines three datatypes, some helpers functions
and instances. The data types are AEither, MEither and
MEitherT. AEither provides an Applicative instance which
appends Left values, MEither provides the monadic definition,
and MEitherT is a monad transformer.
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ChangeLog:

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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #630283 - Review Request: ghc-neither - Either with monad and applicative instances
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=630283
  [ 2 ] Bug #630223 - Review Request: ghc-failure - A simple type class for success/failure computations
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=630223
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