[Haskell-cafe] Monad laws

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Rafael Almeida <almeidaraf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> What is there to be gained by such a law which can't be enforced by the
> compiler?


There are lots of things that can't be enforced by the compiler; for
example, it can't force you to write an Ord instance that implements a
correct total ordering. Does this make Ord less useful to you? Or pointless?

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