delude

Simple Prelude replacement for toy programs

A simple Prelude replacement, aiming to bring unsafe partial functions out of scope, and bring in replacements work as suitable replacements, such as readMaybe instead of read, and head/tail that return Maybe values.

Haddock documentation can be found on GitHub pages.

Why another Prelude replacement?

As a beginner learning Haskell, I do not know enough to evaluate and choose an existing Prelude replacement. Instead, I am writing this in the meantime to get more familiar with what problems I have with the Prelude, so I may better choose an existing, tested replacement in the future.

This is meant for use in toy programs and so on, and should definitely not be used in any real development.

Should I use this?

No.

Benchmarks

Benchmark results using criterion can be found in text in bench.txt, and online on chuahou.dev.

A short commentary:

• Terrible performance deprovements in foldr1, foldl1, maximum, minimum, presumably due to propagation of Maybe.
• Negligible performance change for foldr1', foldl1', maximum', minimum' as they don't do anything extra.
• Great performance improvements for sum and product using strict foldl' in place of foldMap.
• Some small performance degradation for head and tail, as there is some Maybe overhead, probably.
• Larger performance degradation for last, as it needs to traverse the list.
• Sizable performance degradation for init due to a large number of fmap-ed conses.
• Lastly, a sizable performance degradation for (!?), since it's just naïve recursion.