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

[Magicloud Magiclouds]

Thank you guys. I think I learned a lot. Pretty confusing and interesting.

2009/11/14 Eugene Kirpichov <ekirpichov at gmail.com>:
> For every monoid (M, *, u), the dual to it is the monoid (Dual M, \x y
> -> y * x, u)
> For every type A, there exists the A-endomorphism monoid (A->A, (.),
> id). Endo A is just a newtype for A -> A.
>
> More simply, dualization is flipping the binary operation, and the
> endo monoid is the monoid of functions a->a with composition.
>
> 2009/11/13 Magicloud Magiclouds <magicloud.magiclouds at gmail.com>:
>> I see. Then what is about Dual and Endo? Especially Endo, I completely
>> confused....
>>
>> 2009/11/14 Eugene Kirpichov <ekirpichov at gmail.com>:
>>> There is an astonishing number of things in programming that are monoids:
>>>  - Numbers, addition, 0
>>>  - Numbers, multiplication, 1
>>>  - Lists, concatenation, [] (including strings)
>>>  - Sorted lists, merge with respect to a linear order, []
>>>  - Sets, union, {}
>>>  - Maps, left-biased or right-biased union, {}
>>>  - Maps K->V, union where Vs for same K get merged in some other monoid, {}
>>>  - For any M: Subsets of M, intersection, M
>>>  - Any lattice with an upper bound, minimum, upper bound;
>>> symmetrically for a lower-bounded set
>>>  - If (S, *, u)  is a monoid, then (A -> S, \f g x -> f x * g x, \x ->
>>> u) is a monoid
>>>  - Product (a,b) and co-product (Either) of monoids
>>>  - Parsers, alternation, a parser that always fails
>>>  - etc.
>>>
>>> The benefits of calling something a monoid arise from using
>>> general-purpose structures operating on monoids:
>>>  - Finger trees http://apfelmus.nfshost.com/monoid-fingertree.html
>>>  - Aforementioned maps which merge values for a key in a given monoid
>>>  - Aforementioned monoids lifted to functions
>>>  - Monoidal folds (Data.Foldable)
>>>  - ...
>>>
>>> 2009/11/13 Magicloud Magiclouds <magicloud.magiclouds at gmail.com>:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>  I have looked the concept of monoid and something related, but
>>>> still, I do not know why we use it?
>>>>
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> Eugene Kirpichov
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