[containers] Proposal: Change to the Data.Map Monoid

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Dienstag, den 20.05.2014, 17:47 -0400 schrieb Edward Kmett:
> -1 from me as well, though it is a much softer -1 than on the just breaking everyone silently by changing it.
> 
> _Lots_ of users initialize empty maps with mempty

no problem, let’s replace it with

instance (Ord k) => Monoid (Map k v) where
     mempty  = empty
     mappend = error "do not use Monoid (Map k v), it is ambiguous"


Greetings,
Joachim

PS: No, I’m not serious.


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