[Haskell-cafe] Could someone teach me why we use Data.Monoid?

David Place d at vidplace.com
Fri Nov 13 12:48:13 EST 2009


Magicloud Magiclouds <magicloud.magiclouds at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:11:27 +0800
> From: Magicloud Magiclouds <magicloud.magiclouds at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Could someone teach me why we use
> 	Data.Monoid?
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> That is OK. Since understand the basic concept of monoid (I mean the
> thing in actual math), the idea here is totally not hard for me. But
> the sample here does not show why (or how) we use it in programming,
> right?


For an example of it's use, you might enjoy reading my article in the Monad.Reader  "How to Refold a Map."

> http://www.haskell.org/sitewiki/images/6/6a/TMR-Issue11.pdf

Cheers,
David



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