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

Yes, this has sort-of been agreed upon in a GHC ticket about a year ago: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3339 I had a patch in Darcs, but then came the switch to Git. I ported it to Git, but didn't iron out all the issues. That was quite a while ago so it's currently a bit bitrotten. I don't think it's enough time to get it into 7.2, but since that's largely an unstable release, it wouldn't hurt until 7.4. I'll probably work on it at CamHac in a few weeks. On 24 July 2011 13:14, Maciej Wos wrote:

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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