Re: Proposal #3339: Add (+>) as a synonym for mappend

On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 20:33 -0400, Edward Kmett wrote:

I don't know, and I don't know that anyone can know what other operators people have used in code that uses HughesPJ or any of the other pretty printer combinator libraries. Most compelling, is that there is an implicit 'infixr 5 :' in the Prelude and the pretty printer combinator libraries use [Doc] all over the place. So moving one level down would break a lot of pretty printer client code.

Yep, fair enough. infixr 6 <> it is then :-) Sadly it looks like we're too late to change base before ghc-6.12.1, so this will probably only make it into a released base version in a year's time. :-( Duncan