On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 7:34 AM, John Goerzen <jgoer...@complete.org> quoted:
> I'd be inclined to call it something like "Appendable". But I don't know what Appendable means. Maybe it means > class Appendable a where > append :: a x -> x -> a x ie. a container x's lets you can add an x to the end or maybe it means > class Appendable a where > append :: a -> x -> a ie. something that you can append anything to or maybe it means > class Appendable a where > append :: a -> a -> a so you can append any two elements of the same type together. Why use words that are so vague when there's already word that unambiguously says what the type class looks like? And even worse, why use duplicate terminology to make it even harder to see when mathematicians and computer scientists are talking about the same thing, so widening the divide between two groups of people who have much to share. -- Dan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
