[Haskell-cafe] Re: Comments from OCaml Hacker Brian Hurt

[Conal Elliott]

Well-put.  Thanks!      - Conal

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Dougal Stanton <ithika at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:54 PM, ChrisK <haskell at list.mightyreason.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > So the original article, which coined 'Appendable', did so without much
> > thought in the middle of a long post.  But it does show the thinking was
> > about collections and there is one ONE instance of Monoid at
> >
> >
> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Data-Monoid.html#t%3AMonoid
> >
> > that is about a collection (Monoid ([] a)) that has a split operation.
>
> The blind man at the back takes firm hold of the tail and says, "But
> why do we need to call it an *elephant*? No-one knows what that is.
> Everyone knows what a rope is, so we should just call it a rope."
>
> And that is how the elephant came to be labelled a rope in all the guide
> books.
>
> :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> D
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