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

+1 to that Regards, John On Jan 15, 2009, at 4:10 PM, Cale Gibbard wrote:

2009/1/15 Sittampalam, Ganesh :

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Lennart Augustsson wrote:

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I think the documentation should be reasonably newbie-friendly too. But that doesn't mean we should call Monoid Appendable. Appendable is just misleading, since Monoid is more general than appending.

Then why does it have a member named 'mappend'? :-)

Ganesh

Good question. The names of the methods of the Monoid class are inappropriate.

My personal preference would be:

class Monoid m where zero :: m (++) :: m -> m -> m

(in the Prelude of course)

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