[Haskell-cafe] Comments from OCaml Hacker Brian Hurt

[Lennart Augustsson]

Beats me.  As I said, I don't think Haskell gets all the names right. :)

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Sittampalam, Ganesh
<ganesh.sittampalam at credit-suisse.com> wrote:
> Lennart Augustsson wrote:
>> I think the documentation should be reasonably newbie-friendly too.
>> But that doesn't mean we should call Monoid Appendable.
>> Appendable is just misleading, since Monoid is more general than
>> appending.
>
> Then why does it have a member named 'mappend'? :-)
>
> Ganesh
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