Simon Marlow pointed me to mail-archive.com. For some reason Google doesn't seem to index this site, and it's not an easy site to navigate around. However, you can find the monadzero thread mostly on this page: http://www.mail-archive.com/haskell@haskell.org/thrd16.html (search for MonadZero) Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: haskell-bounces@haskell.org | [mailto:haskell-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Simon Peyton-Jones | Sent: 05 January 2006 09:06 | To: Cale Gibbard; Haskell Mailing List | Subject: RE: [Haskell] A collection of related proposals | regarding monads | | | | What do people think of the following proposal? Remove fail from the | | Monad class. Reinstate MonadZero as a separate class as in Haskell | | 1.4. | | This was debated extensively during the Haskell 98 process. I'm not | saying that we made the right decision then, but here's a link to (a | part of) the discussion. | | http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Haskell/Messages/Decision.cgi?id=2 | | I'm hoping someone has an archive of the whole mailing list they can | let us have (see my other message) | | Simon | _______________________________________________ | Haskell mailing list | Haskell@haskell.org | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell |