Nope, Other than possibly adding library clutter. I have a package that provides many instances and common functions for ZipLists. Eventually I might stick it on hackage, but currently it's here: http://github.com/jvranish/ZipList I really with there was a way to switch Applicative (or other) instances for list (or other) types. Then we wouldn't have this problem. - Job On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 5:52 AM, Vladimir Reshetnikov < v.reshetnikov@gmail.com> wrote:

I find the following instance very convenient: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ import Data.Monoid import Control.Applicative instance Monoid a => Monoid (ZipList a) where mempty = pure mempty mappend = liftA2 mappend ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Any reason why it is not in the standard library?

Thanks, Vladimir

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