[Haskell-cafe] Why there is not standard Monoid instance for ZipList a?

[Job Vranish]

Nope,
Other than possibly adding library clutter.

I have a package that provides many instances and common functions for
ZipLists. Eventually I might stick it on hackage, but currently it's here:
http://github.com/jvranish/ZipList

I really with there was a way to switch Applicative (or other) instances for
list (or other) types.
Then we wouldn't have this problem.

- Job


On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 5:52 AM, Vladimir Reshetnikov <
v.reshetnikov at gmail.com> wrote:

> I find the following instance very convenient:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> import Data.Monoid
> import Control.Applicative
> instance Monoid a => Monoid (ZipList a) where
>   mempty = pure mempty
>   mappend = liftA2 mappend
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Any reason why it is not in the standard library?
>
> Thanks,
> Vladimir
>
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