type (++) = (<>)

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Vassil Ognyanov Keremidchiev wrote:

> What do you think of making (++) the same as (<>) so we could use ++ as
> concatenation of any monoid, not just lists in Haskell 2020?
> This will be more intuitive for beginners, too.

Two symbolic operators that are synonymous seems a bit of a waste. I would
much rather see (++) be deprecated in favour of (<>). At work we have a
custom prelude which already does this.

Erik
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