2009/1/15 Sittampalam, Ganesh <ganesh.sittampa...@credit-suisse.com>: > 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 _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
