Hey guy, it there a way to convert a Kotlin Result...

# arrow

[Simon Frost]

Hey guy, it there a way to convert a Kotlin Result to a Arrow Either in the library, like:

fun <T : Any?> Result<T>.toEither(): Either<Throwable, T> = this.fold(
    { Either.Right(it) },
    { Either.Left(it) }
)

If not, is there anything that speaks against adding this ?

[Alejandro Serrano.Mena]

that's perfectly fine; we didn't include it directly because most of the times one has a Result is because of a throwing function

[Alejandro Serrano.Mena]

but in that case you can just do Either.catch { theThrowingFunction() }

[Simon Frost]

thats true, for most of the cases.
In case you don’t want to or can’t change it (external library), it would be good to have such functionality in the core library.

[Alejandro Serrano.Mena]

indeed, although I think result.fold(::Either.Right, ::Either.Left) is quite small too

[Simon Frost]

try it 😅

[Simon Frost]

Do I understand you correctly that you see no added value in providing something like this in core?

[Alejandro Serrano.Mena]

I personally don't, but feel free to open an issue in the repo to have more community input (I don't want to impose my opinion on you or any other)