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

On 6 Nov 2011, at 16:37, Duncan Coutts wrote:

On Sun, 2011-08-14 at 14:22 +0100, Johan Tibell wrote:

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On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Paterson, Ross wrote:

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Johan Tibell writes:

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This is a call for consensus. Do we agree to add

infixr 6 <>

(<>) :: Monoid m => m -> m -> m (<>) = mappend

Currently Text.Pretty declares infixl 5 <>, <+>.

So what is the rationale for the new Monoidal operator <> to be declared infixr 6? Why can it not simply preserve the same fixity as already used by Pretty's <> ? Regards, Malcolm