Add a maybe function for MaybeT like the except for ExceptT

[garyb]

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[ursi]

I definitely support this, however, should it be named maybe? as it would clash with maybe.

[JordanMartinez]

Perhaps maybeT?

[thomashoneyman]

We can rely on qualified imports to disambiguate, at least. I would expect the naming to be the same as is used for ExceptT, which would be to follow @garyb’s proposal for the name

[Quelklef]

👎 to both maybe and maybeT. When I see a function with the lowercase name of a type, I expect that function to be a destructor (bool, maybe, either, etc).

In Haskell this function is called hoistMaybe. Why doesn't that work?

If readability/succinctness is an issue, something like the following might work

class Hoist m n a | m -> a, m -> n where
  hoist :: n a -> m a

instance Hoist (MaybeT m) Maybe a where -- ...
instance Hoist (ExceptT e m) (Either e) a where -- ...