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

On 24.07.2011 22:20, Antoine Latter wrote:

On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 1:41 PM, KC wrote:

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It would be easier for beginners to "grok".

I think that assumes that all beginners have a strong foundation in algebra. Although it does have the advantage that the names are as abstract as the class.

As pointed out earlier in this list, the name of the class and the methods are inconsistent. Monoid refers to a general algebraic structure, whereas mempty and mappend refer to certain instances like lists.