[Haskell-cafe] Comments from OCaml Hacker Brian Hurt

[Peter Verswyvelen]

>
> I'm not sure having a Monoid class is actually useful for anything - but if
> we must have it, there seems to be little better possible name for something
> so vague.
>

IMO the Monoid class is useful since, if you define mempty and mappend, you
get mconcat for free. I don't see what the problem is. Most people will
accept Functor, as it used a lot. Monoid might be less used, but if you
reject it, then by principle you must just as well reject Functor, and any
other type classes.
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