Names in Haskell (Was: [Haskell-cafe] Comments from OCaml Hacker Brian Hurt)

[roconnor at theorem.ca]

What I don't understand is why Monoid and Monad are objectionable, while 
Hash, Vector, Boolean, and Integer are (presumably) not objectionable. 
They all appear equally technical to me.

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