Prelude.deref(3kaya)

Prelude.deref3kaya

Dereference a maybe.

Usage

a deref( Maybe<a> v )

Arguments

v The value to dereference

Overview

Extract the value from a Prelude.Maybe (3kaya)
An Exception is thrown if v is nothing
A case statemement is generally more appropriate unless it is known that the dereferencing should succeed (for example, using Dict.lookup (3kaya) on a key known to have been added). deref(x) is equivalent to x.val

Releases

4 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 5.0
  2. 6.0
  3. 7
  4. 8

Authors

Kaya standard library by Edwin Brady, Chris Morris and others ([email protected]). For further information see http://kayalang.org/

License

The Kaya standard library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (version 2.1 or any later version) as published by the Free Software Foundation.

From kaya 0.4.4-6.2 in Debian 8 (Jessie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.