15 Jan
2009
15 Jan
'09
4:59 p.m.
How does forcing them to learn proposed terminology such as `Appendable' help here? Learners of Haskell do still need to learn what the new word means.
The contention is that 'Appendable' is an intuitive naming that people will already have a rudimentary grasp of. This as opposed to Monoid, which absolutely requires looking up for the average coder.