NonEmptyList

[brendanmaguire]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I have found NonEmptyList from the Scala Cats library very useful in the past. I'd like to implement a similar collection type in Expression. Is this something you would be open to @dbrattli ?

Describe the solution you'd like Just a few examples outlined below. Overall I'd see it working in a similar way to expression.collections.Block (i.e. an immutable collection).

list(NonEmptyList.one(1)) == [1]

list(NonEmptyList.of(1, 2, 3)) == [1, 2, 3]

NonEmptyList.from([1, 2, 3]).map(list) == Some([1, 2, 3])

NonEmptyList.from([]) == Nothing

def do_something_with_list_that_must_be_non_empty(l: NonEmptyList):
    # do things with elements in `l`

Describe alternatives you've considered Doing this everywhere in your code:

def do_something_with_list_that_must_be_non_empty(l: list):
    if l:
        # do things with elements in `l`