[Haskell-cafe] Monoid wants a (++) equivalent

Jason Dagit dagit at codersbase.com
Wed Jul 1 10:55:02 EDT 2009


On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Thomas Davie <tom.davie at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 1 Jul 2009, at 16:46, Edward Kmett wrote:
>
>  I'm rather fond of the (<>) suggestion, but would be happy with anything
>> better than mappend! ;)
>>
>
> I find it rather ugly, it has a lot of connotations of "does not equals"
> from other languages.  Personally I'm in favor of <+>, simply because it
> looks most like a circle with a plus in it.


This is my favorite of the suggestions as well.  Then again, I don't mind
typing mappend.  Yay for bikesheds :)

Jason
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