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

Heinrich Apfelmus apfelmus at quantentunnel.de
Thu Jul 2 12:04:54 EDT 2009


Ross Paterson wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 04:53:05PM +0200, Thomas Davie 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.
> 
> Forget Pascal: think of it as a diamond.

I too like shiny diamonds, as exemplified in

  http://apfelmus.nfshost.com/monoid-fingertree.html



Regards,
apfelmus

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