Re: [Haskell-cafe] Monoid wants a (++) equivalent

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Duncan Coutts

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I agree, if we can't use ++ then <> is the next best thing.

Okay, here's a tentative plan that will help to figure out the answer. I'll build a fiddled base package that rewires the Monoid class to have (++) be the binary operator, and mappend as a synonym for it. I'll import the Monoid (++) into the Prelude. I'll see how much breaks. If that much builds smoothly, I'll see how much of the rest of Hackage builds, both with and without this custom base package. I'll follow up here with the results, along with a suggestion of how acceptable I think the observed level of breakage is.

Seem reasonable?

It's more reasonable than sitting around waxing philosophical on the notation I suppose :-)

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