Accumulate Err
on Alt
for Result
type
#140
Merged
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Best Laid Plans
After messing about with
Alt
and trying to come up with helpers forAlternative
andAlt
, I was really sad thatResult
did not accumulateErr
like it does withap
. It would be very useful and does not seem to break any laws.So that is what this is. Now if you use a
Semigroup
for yourErr
and usealt
it will concat your Errs. If you do not use aSemigroup
, thenalt
behaves in a manner that works likeEither.alt
, in which it return the firstOk
, but the lastErr
. Like so: