[Haskell-cafe] Generalizing (++) for monoids instead of using (<>)

[aditya bhargava]

After asking this question:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9963050/standard-way-of-joining-two-data-texts-without-mappend

I found out that the new infix operator for `mappend` is (<>). I'm
wondering why ghc 7.4 didn't generalize (++) to work on monoids instead. To
me, (++) is much more clear. (<>) means "not equal to" for me. Can anyone
shed light on this decision?


Adit

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