Well-put. Thanks! - Conal On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Dougal Stanton <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:54 PM, ChrisK <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > So the original article, which coined 'Appendable', did so without much > > thought in the middle of a long post. But it does show the thinking was > > about collections and there is one ONE instance of Monoid at > > > > > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Data-Monoid.html#t%3AMonoid > > > > that is about a collection (Monoid ([] a)) that has a split operation. > > The blind man at the back takes firm hold of the tail and says, "But > why do we need to call it an *elephant*? No-one knows what that is. > Everyone knows what a rope is, so we should just call it a rope." > > And that is how the elephant came to be labelled a rope in all the guide > books. > > :-) > > Cheers, > > D > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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