Re: [Haskell-cafe] Names for pretty-printing combinators

(Changing the subject as it's going off-topic from the original email :p) On 25 May 2011 22:45, Simon Meier wrote:

2011/5/25 Ivan Lazar Miljenovic :

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Also, by clashes with Applicative, are you referring to empty and <$> ?  I'm not sure if a better name than "empty" can be found; as for <$>, maybe using pretty's notation of $$ and $+$ rather than <$> and <$$> ?

What about 'emptyDoc'?

It's a bit more of a mouthful, and getting a bit close to Hungarian Notation, isn't it? :p Also, empty is already used a fair amount in other libraries as it stands (admittedly, most of those are in modules that are typically imported qualified...).

Moreover, if you are changing the names of combinators, then moving them away from Applicative and Arrow would be a good idea; i.e., don't use <+>, as it already used by ArrowPlus.

*sigh* We really need to get a list of used operators somewhere so that libraries can stake a claim :p

Moreover, if you can make a Monoid instance such that `mappend` equals <>, you would also make the library compatible to a future introduction of (<>) = mappend.

I was thinking about that actually... -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com