Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Comments from OCaml Hacker Brian Hurt

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 1:41 AM, david48

wrote:

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

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Hello david48,

Friday, January 16, 2009, 4:16:51 PM, you wrote:

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Upon reading this thread, I asked myself : what's a monoid ? I had no idea. I read some posts, then google "haskell monoid".

it would be interesting to google "C++ class" or "Lisp function" and compare experience :)

The first link for C++ class I find on google is the wikipedia article which I find understandable, has examples and explanations that relate to programming. OTOH, the wikipedia article for monoid is less easy (for me), though now I can follow the first paragraphs. But I don't find on the page how/why/where it relates to programming.

So you're saying it should be better documented in Haskell what a Monoid is. Did you say you searched for "C++ class" why not "Haskell Monoid" then? The first correct google hit that didn't think I meant Monads, takes you straight to the GHC documentation for Data.Monoid.

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