categories and monoids (was: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design Patterns by Gamma or equivalent)

[Dan Piponi]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:06 AM, Wolfgang Jeltsch
<g9ks157k at acme.softbase.org> wrote:

> What is a “generalized monoid”? According to the grammatical construction
> (adjective plus noun), it should be a special kind of monoid

There's no such implication in English. The standard example used by
linguists is "fake gun".
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Dan