Re: [Haskell-cafe] Generalizing (++) for monoids instead of using (<>)

See the relevant trac ticket [1] and the linked mailing list thread. Erik [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3339 On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 22:58, aditya bhargava wrote:

After asking this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9963050/standard-way-of-joining-two-data-...

I found out that the new infix operator for `mappend` is (<>). I'm wondering why ghc 7.4 didn't generalize (++) to work on monoids instead. To me, (++) is much more clear. (<>) means "not equal to" for me. Can anyone shed light on this decision?

Adit

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