Re: [Haskell-cafe] Alternative versus Monoid

On 21 December 2011 12:55, Henning Thielemann wrote:

On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, Bas van Dijk wrote:

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On 16 December 2011 05:26, Brent Yorgey wrote:

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I, for one, would be quite in favor of changing the current Monoid (Maybe a) instance to correspond to the failure-and-prioritized-choice semantics

So lets do this. Some questions:

I wondered what the prior discussion was, but it seems you moved to here from Haskell-Cafe.

http://haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2011-December/097598.html

Indeed. Sorry for the confusion. Bas