List.Nonempty for Elm

A list that is known, at compile-time, to be nonempty. This means head and tail are guaranteed to succeed and you don't have to carry Maybes throughout your program.

import List.Nonempty exposing (..)
one = fromElement 2
two = 4 ::: one
toList two == [4, 2]
head two == 4
tail two == [2]
toList (reverse two) == [2, 4]
toList (dropTail two) == [4]

For actual usage, I recommend import List.Nonempty as NE exposing ((:::)).

Testing

Run elm reactor in the test directory, open Test.elm, and wait a few seconds while libraries are downloaded. Thanks to all the work that went into property-based testing, even if it's overkill for this tiny library.