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

On 9/17/09, Ross Paterson wrote:

I prefer using a new operator instead of generalizing ++ (or +, *, && or ||), because I think that a monoid operation is so abstract that it needs a name that doesn't suggest one of the special cases. (I like <>)

<> collides with the same operator defined in Text.PrettyPrint. Please don't add operator that collides with something else that is already in the standard libraries. The operators looks very ugly when they are quantified. We should save at least some very often used functions and operators from collision. Krasimir