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2009/1/15 Sittampalam, Ganesh <ganesh.sittampalam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Lennart Augustsson wrote:
>> I think the documentation should be reasonably newbie-friendly too.
>> But that doesn't mean we should call Monoid Appendable.
>> Appendable is just misleading, since Monoid is more general than
>> appending.
>
> Then why does it have a member named 'mappend'? :-)
>
> Ganesh
Good question. The names of the methods of the Monoid class are inappropriate.
My personal preference would be:
class Monoid m where
zero :: m
(++) :: m -> m -> m
(in the Prelude of course)
- Cale
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