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

[Dougal Stanton]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Heinrich Apfelmus
<apfelmus at quantentunnel.de> wrote:

> Let me explain this monoid magic, albeit not in this message which would
> become far too long, but at
>
>  http://apfelmus.nfshost.com/monoid-fingertree.html
>

That is a very nice summary! I did my own investigation of fingertrees
recently [1] and also came to the conclusion that the function names
for Monoid really are the ugliest, impractical things for such a
beautiful, simple concept.

Ah, if only we could go back in time :-)


[1]: http://www.dougalstanton.net/blog/index.php/2008/12/12/a-brief-look-at-fingertrees/


Cheers,

D