[Haskell-cafe] Comments from OCaml Hacker Brian Hurt

[Cale Gibbard]

2009/1/15 Sittampalam, Ganesh <ganesh.sittampalam at credit-suisse.com>:
> 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

Good question. The names of the methods of the Monoid class are inappropriate.

My personal preference would be:

class Monoid m where
   zero :: m
   (++) :: m -> m -> m

(in the Prelude of course)

 - Cale