[Haskell-cafe] Comments from OCaml Hacker Brian Hurt

[David Leimbach]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk
> wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 19:46 +0000, Andrew Coppin wrote:
>
> > PS. As a small aside... Is the Monoid class actually used *anywhere* in
> > all of Haskell?
>
> Yes.
>
> They're used quite a lot in Cabal. Package databases are monoids.
> Configuration files are monoids. Command line flags and sets of command
> line flags are monoids. Package build information is a monoid.
>
> It is also used in the Foldable class which is a nice interface for
> traversing/visiting structures. Binary serialisation is also a monoid.
>

The Writer Monad requires that you give it a Monoid for it to do its work
properly.


>
> Duncan
>
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