Remove listToMaybe

[Martoon-00]

It was funny to learn that we have yet another head here which is called listToMaybe.

I think this function isn't worth living as soon as its exact behavior is not totally clear from its name (what happens if a list has more than one element?)

[dcastro]

Agreed, but listToMaybe's type isn't exactly the same as head though...

• listToMaybe :: [a] -> Maybe a
• Universum.head :: NonEmpty a -> a
• Universum.Unsafe.head :: [a] -> a

Maybe we should rename listToMaybe to headMaybe?

[Martoon-00]

Ah, I rather compared listToMaybe to the entire family of head-like functions that we export (but my sentence was misleading).

Additionally to the functions you mentioned, there is safeHead :: Container t => t -> Maybe (Element a) that covers listToMaybe.

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Maybe it's really worth having a renamed concrete headMaybe, this will solve the issue with uncertainty "what happens if the list las more than one element".

I personally think that having even 3 head-like functions is already almost too much, and we better go without [a] -> Maybe a variation.

[dcastro]

there is safeHead

Ah right of course! Hackage's "search box" feature wasn't being very friendly 😅

I personally think that having even 3 head-like functions is already almost too much, and we better go without [a] -> Maybe a variation.

Absolutely, given that we have safeHead, I also vote for straight up deleting listToMaybe.