-Lookup functions
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-@assocMaybe@ looks up in an assocation list, returning
-@Nothing@ if it fails.
-
-\begin{code}
-assocMaybe :: (Eq a) => [(a,b)] -> a -> Maybe b
-
-assocMaybe alist key
- = lookup alist
- where
- lookup [] = Nothing
- lookup ((tv,ty):rest) = if key == tv then Just ty else lookup rest
-\end{code}
-
-@mkLookupFun eq alist@ is a function which looks up
-its argument in the association list @alist@, returning a Maybe type.
-@mkLookupFunDef@ is similar except that it is given a value to return
-on failure.
-
-\begin{code}
-mkLookupFun :: (key -> key -> Bool) -- Equality predicate
- -> [(key,val)] -- The assoc list
- -> key -- The key
- -> Maybe val -- The corresponding value
-
-mkLookupFun eq alist s
- = case [a | (s',a) <- alist, s' `eq` s] of
- [] -> Nothing
- (a:_) -> Just a
-
-mkLookupFunDef :: (key -> key -> Bool) -- Equality predicate
- -> [(key,val)] -- The assoc list
- -> val -- Value to return on failure
- -> key -- The key
- -> val -- The corresponding value
-
-mkLookupFunDef eq alist deflt s
- = case [a | (s',a) <- alist, s' `eq` s] of
- [] -> deflt
- (a:_) -> a
-\end{code}