Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Comments from OCaml Hacker Brian Hurt

Well-put. Thanks! - Conal On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Dougal Stanton wrote:

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:54 PM, ChrisK wrote:

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So the original article, which coined 'Appendable', did so without much thought in the middle of a long post. But it does show the thinking was about collections and there is one ONE instance of Monoid at

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Data-Monoid.html#...

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that is about a collection (Monoid ([] a)) that has a split operation.

The blind man at the back takes firm hold of the tail and says, "But why do we need to call it an *elephant*? No-one knows what that is. Everyone knows what a rope is, so we should just call it a rope."

And that is how the elephant came to be labelled a rope in all the guide books.

:-)

Cheers,

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