[Haskell-cafe] Applicative Monoid instance

[Will Yager]

Probably something to do with not making overlapping instances. Not sure. 

Easiest/best approach is probably to make a newtype wrapper around IO or IO (). Then you can define the monoid instance you want. 

Will

> On Sep 5, 2016, at 13:54, Brian Hurt <bhurt at spnz.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> This may be a stupid question, but I'm wondering why the following instance isn't in prelude:
> 
> instance (Applicative m, Monoid a) => Monoid (m a) where
>     mempty = pure mempty
>     mappend a b = mappend <$> a <*> b
> 
> ?
> 
> I ask, because being able to use a WriterT (IO ()) STM a to debug complex STM expressions would be really nice.  But it depends upon IO () being a monoid.
> 
> Brian
> 
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