[Haskell-cafe] where to put general-purpose utility functions

[Simon Hengel]

>   headMaybe :: [a] -> Maybe a

Is this the same as Data.Maybe.maybeToList?

>   readMaybe :: Read a => String -> Maybe a

This has been added to base recently [1].

Cheers,
Simon

[1] https://github.com/ghc/packages-base/commit/0e1a02b96cfd03b8488e3ff4ce232466d6d5ca77