[Gajurgensen]

It would be nice if there was a standard type alias for Either which explicitly labeled good/bad values.

That being said, I don't think it takes that much energy to remember that the right is the good value. If you are comfortable with monads, just remember that monads must be parameterized over a single type, and for Either that will be the right type (because we must partially apply the type constructor with the left type to get it down to the correct form).

[seppel]

> That being said, I don't think it takes that much energy to remember that the right is the good value.

And then clever guys come and use left as the good value, because then want to retry on error (as you can see in this thread). Plus it takes quite some energy to discuss the, well, unfortunate naming.

[leshow]

I'm not sure which definition you're referring to, but every one I've seen you'd be hard-pressed to use left as the 'good' value. The type's definition favours 'right' for Functor/Applicative/Monad/etc instances.

[seppel]

I'm referring to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20224097

[leshow]

There are zero implementations of Left being the Ok value, just this hypothetical put forward by another commenter.

edit: I should specify that I mean when Either is used as a 'Result' type. There are plenty of other use cases you can use Either outside of Ok/Err values.