Sittampalam, Ganesh wrote:
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'? :-)
That's a mistake - and in fact, it's a good demonstration of why Monoid
should not be named something like Appendable - because it misleads
people into thinking that the structure is less general than it really is.
Anton
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