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OneOrMore

In many cases, a list type is desired, but it is expected that the list will not be empty. Rather than throwing runtime errors when empty lists are encountered, we can use Haskell's type system to create a type which is guaranteed to have at least one element:

data OneOrMore a = One a
                 | More a (OneOrMore a)

OneOrMores are intended to be incredibly simple to use, and there are no dependencies outside of base. To use it, run cabal install oneormore, and then put import Data.OneOrMore in your source. That's it!

We have included a few useful type class instances for OneOrMore, such as Functor, Applicative, Foldable and Traversable. We also include an instance of IsList, so that OneOrMores can be written as list literals:

>>> :set -XOverloadedLists
>>> [1,2,3] :: OneOrMore Int
More 1 (More 2 (One 3))

Interestingly, we cannot make an instance of Monoid, because there is no sensible representation of mempty.

The Operators module has some useful functions. Notably, head and last are always safe (tail and init are not). Many of whose names are common to Prelude functions on lists, so it might be desirable to import qualified.

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