[Haskell-cafe] For class Monoid; better names than mempty & mappend might have been: mid (mident) & mbinop

[Thomas Schilling]

Yes, this has sort-of been agreed upon in a GHC ticket about a year
ago: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3339

I had a patch in Darcs, but then came the switch to Git.  I ported it
to Git, but didn't iron out all the issues.  That was quite a while
ago so it's currently a bit bitrotten.  I don't think it's enough time
to get it into 7.2, but since that's largely an unstable release, it
wouldn't hurt until 7.4.  I'll probably work on it at CamHac in a few
weeks.

On 24 July 2011 13:14, Maciej Wos <maciej.wos at gmail.com> wrote:
> Personally, I have nothing against mempty (although I agree that mid makes
> more sense), but I don't like mappend at all. I wonder what happened to the
> idea of using <> instead of mappend (that's what I always do). I think
>
> a <> b <> c
>
> looks so much better than
>
> a `mappend` b `mappend` c
>
> and it solves the name problem altogether.
>
> -- Maciej
>
> On Jul 24, 2011 3:42 AM, "KC" <kc1956 at gmail.com> wrote:
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