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They did. The elm-style version is in the standard libraries as: listToMaybe :: [a] -> Maybe a (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.11.1.0/docs/Dat

• galaxyLogic 8y ago
  That's a lengthy name for the simple operation of getting the first element of a list if there is one. I would have preferred 'car' :-)
  • lodi 8y ago
    It's a bit verbose, but this kind of thing is far less prevalent in Haskell anyway; most of the time you destructure a list through pattern matching, not explicit head/tail functions.