[Haskell-cafe] Finger Tree without using Monoid

[Heinrich Apfelmus]

Chris Smith wrote:
> I'm curious why you wanted a finger tree without the Monoid instance...
> if you need a different Monoid instance, you can probably simplify your
> code significantly by using a newtype wrapper around Seq rather than
> re-implementing it.

Indeed, the whole point of the Monoid is that you can use one and the 
same finger tree implementation for a variety of data structures. 
Practically every tree-based data structure can be obtained this way. 
See also

   http://apfelmus.nfshost.com/articles/monoid-fingertree.html



Best regards,
Heinrich Apfelmus

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