Data.List.join

[Ross Paterson]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 01:15:46PM -0400, Samuel Bronson wrote:
> On 10/22/06, John Meacham <john at repetae.net> wrote:
> >Although, now that we lost the Monoid instance for functions (which is
> >very dismaying), it is less useful, as the monoid functions were very
> >useful to build things up efficiently with (String -> String) as a type.
> 
> WHAT!!!!
> 
> Who, when, where, why, how????

The function composition instance is now wrapped in a newtype.
The instances available now are listed here:

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Data-Monoid.html#t%3AMonoid

I was who; here is some of the rest:

http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2005-September/thread.html#4365