[Haskell-cafe] Alternative versus Monoid

[Henning Thielemann]

On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, Bas van Dijk wrote:

> On 16 December 2011 05:26, Brent Yorgey <byorgey at seas.upenn.edu> wrote:
>> I, for one, would be
>> quite in favor of changing the current Monoid (Maybe a) instance to
>> correspond to the failure-and-prioritized-choice semantics
>
> So lets do this. Some questions:

I wondered what the prior discussion was, but it seems you moved to here 
from Haskell-Cafe.

http://haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2011-December/097598.html