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

[Erik Hesselink]

See the relevant trac ticket [1] and the linked mailing list thread.

Erik

[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3339

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 22:58, aditya bhargava <bluemangroupie at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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