duncan.coutts: > On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 19:46 +0000, Andrew Coppin wrote: > > > PS. As a small aside... Is the Monoid class actually used *anywhere* in > > all of Haskell? > > Yes. > > They're used quite a lot in Cabal. Package databases are monoids. > Configuration files are monoids. Command line flags and sets of command > line flags are monoids. Package build information is a monoid. > > It is also used in the Foldable class which is a nice interface for > traversing/visiting structures. Binary serialisation is also a monoid.
Also, xmonad configuration hooks are monoidal. So all those xmonad users gluing together keybindings are using the Monoid class. -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
