On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 12:00:50AM -0400, a...@spamcop.net wrote: > G'day all. > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 08:02:48PM -0400, Daniel Peebles wrote: > >> But we don't want to imply it's commutative either. Having something >> "bidirectional" like <> or <+> feels more commutative than associative >> to me. > > Quoting John Meacham <j...@repetae.net>: > >> Not really, think of '++', which doesn't commute but is visually >> symmetric, or Data.Sequence.<>, or the common use of <> to mean >> concatination in pretty printers. > > Other good examples are && and ||.
..wha? But those ARE commutative. Unless you mean with respect to strictness? -Brent _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
