[Haskell-beginners] [Haskell-cafe] For class Monoid; better names than mempty & mappend might have been: mid (mident) & mbinop
KC
kc1956 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 8 16:56:27 CEST 2011
> As pointed out earlier in this list, the name of the class and the methods
> are inconsistent.
> Monoid refers to a general algebraic structure, whereas
> mempty and mappend refer to certain instances like lists.
>
Thank you for articulating what I was trying to get at.
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Regards,
KC
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