8 Jun
2003
8 Jun
'03
4:06 a.m.
At 18:44 05/06/03 +0100, Liyang HU wrote:
I'd just about figured the ShowS idea, but I've yet to get a handle on this idea of [a] 'monoid'.
Might http://www.engr.mun.ca/~theo/Misc/haskell_and_monads.htm be of any help?
Ah, thanks. I see:
[[
A monoid is an algebraic structure consisting of a set S and an operation *
with the following properties ...
]]
which is a datum I was missing. (I still don't claim to understand it all,
but at least I get a sense of whet the term monoid means.)
#g
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Graham Klyne