Re: [Haskell-cafe] For class Monoid; better names than mempty & mappend might have been: mid (mident) & mbinop

Don't forget that some languages use <> to mean "different" (as if "different" meant always "superior or inferior"...), so some beginners might get confused. I personally often define the alias: (<+>) = mappend 2011/7/24 Maciej Wos

Personally, I have nothing against mempty (although I agree that mid makes more sense), but I don't like mappend at all. I wonder what happened to the idea of using <> instead of mappend (that's what I always do). I think

a <> b <> c

looks so much better than

a `mappend` b `mappend` c

and it solves the name problem altogether.

-- Maciej On Jul 24, 2011 3:42 AM, "KC" wrote:

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