Re: Data.List.join

On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 01:15:46PM -0400, Samuel Bronson wrote:

On 10/22/06, John Meacham wrote:

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Although, now that we lost the Monoid instance for functions (which is very dismaying), it is less useful, as the monoid functions were very useful to build things up efficiently with (String -> String) as a type.

WHAT!!!!

Who, when, where, why, how????

The function composition instance is now wrapped in a newtype. The instances available now are listed here: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Data-Monoid.html#... I was who; here is some of the rest: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2005-September/thread.html#4365