[Haskell-cafe] Comments from OCaml Hacker Brian Hurt

[Duncan Coutts]

On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 13:36 -0800, David Leimbach wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:16 AM, david48 <dav.vire+haskell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 4:08 PM, David Leimbach
>         <leimy2k at gmail.com> wrote:
>         
>         > So you're saying it should be better documented in Haskell
>         what a Monoid is.
>         >  Did you say you searched for "C++ class" why not "Haskell
>         Monoid" then?
>         >  The first correct google hit that didn't think I meant
>         Monads, takes you
>         > straight to the GHC documentation for Data.Monoid.
>         
>         Read my first post on the thread, that's exactly what I did
>         ( and then
>         complained that the doc for Data.Monoid was close to useless )
> 
> 
> Sorry missed it!  This is an exceptionally long thread! :-)  I agree
> Data.Monoid's docs don't give you much to work with. 

Do you think they look better now:

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/docs/libraries/base/Data-Monoid.html

Any other improvements you'd make?

Duncan