Safe Haskell | Safe |
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Language | Haskell2010 |
This module reexports functions to work with Bool
type.
Documentation
guard :: Alternative f => Bool -> f () #
Conditional failure of Alternative
computations. Defined by
guard True =pure
() guard False =empty
Examples
Common uses of guard
include conditionally signaling an error in
an error monad and conditionally rejecting the current choice in an
Alternative
-based parser.
As an example of signaling an error in the error monad Maybe
,
consider a safe division function safeDiv x y
that returns
Nothing
when the denominator y
is zero and
otherwise. For example:Just
(x `div`
y)
>>> safeDiv 4 0 Nothing >>> safeDiv 4 2 Just 2
A definition of safeDiv
using guards, but not guard
:
safeDiv :: Int -> Int -> Maybe Int safeDiv x y | y /= 0 = Just (x `div` y) | otherwise = Nothing
A definition of safeDiv
using guard
and Monad
do
-notation:
safeDiv :: Int -> Int -> Maybe Int safeDiv x y = do guard (y /= 0) return (x `div` y)
unless :: Applicative f => Bool -> f () -> f () #
The reverse of when
.
when :: Applicative f => Bool -> f () -> f () #
Conditional execution of Applicative
expressions. For example,
when debug (putStrLn "Debugging")
will output the string Debugging
if the Boolean value debug
is True
, and otherwise do nothing.
Instances
Case analysis for the Bool
type.
evaluates to bool
x y px
when p
is False
, and evaluates to y
when p
is True
.
This is equivalent to if p then y else x
; that is, one can
think of it as an if-then-else construct with its arguments
reordered.
Examples
Basic usage:
>>>
bool "foo" "bar" True
"bar">>>
bool "foo" "bar" False
"foo"
Confirm that
and bool
x y pif p then y else x
are
equivalent:
>>>
let p = True; x = "bar"; y = "foo"
>>>
bool x y p == if p then y else x
True>>>
let p = False
>>>
bool x y p == if p then y else x
True
Since: base-4.7.0.0