Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Comments from OCaml Hacker Brian Hurt

2009-01-22 Thread Derek Elkins
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 11:32 -0600, Jeremy Shaw wrote: > Hello, > > Just some minor suggestions and comments: > > The description might read better as two sentences: > >A class for monoids with various general-purpose instances. Monoids >are types with an associative binary operation that

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Comments from OCaml Hacker Brian Hurt

2009-01-22 Thread Jeremy Shaw
Hello, Just some minor suggestions and comments: The description might read better as two sentences: A class for monoids with various general-purpose instances. Monoids are types with an associative binary operation that has an identity. One thing that I think is a bit unclear from tha

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Comments from OCaml Hacker Brian Hurt

2009-01-18 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 13:36 -0800, David Leimbach wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:16 AM, david48 > wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 4:08 PM, David Leimbach > wrote: > > > So you're saying it should be better documented in Haskell > what a Monoid i

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Comments from OCaml Hacker Brian Hurt

2009-01-17 Thread David Leimbach
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:16 AM, david48 > wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 4:08 PM, David Leimbach wrote: > > > So you're saying it should be better documented in Haskell what a Monoid > is. > > Did you say you searched for "C++ class" why not "Haskell Monoid" then? > > The first correct goog

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Comments from OCaml Hacker Brian Hurt

2009-01-17 Thread david48
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 4:08 PM, David Leimbach wrote: > So you're saying it should be better documented in Haskell what a Monoid is. > Did you say you searched for "C++ class" why not "Haskell Monoid" then? > The first correct google hit that didn't think I meant Monads, takes you > straight t

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Comments from OCaml Hacker Brian Hurt

2009-01-17 Thread David Leimbach
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 1:41 AM, david48 > wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Bulat Ziganshin > wrote: > > Hello david48, > > > > Friday, January 16, 2009, 4:16:51 PM, you wrote: > > > >> Upon reading this thread, I asked myself : what's a monoid ? I had no > >> idea. I read some posts, t

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Comments from OCaml Hacker Brian Hurt

2009-01-17 Thread david48
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: > Hello david48, > > Friday, January 16, 2009, 4:16:51 PM, you wrote: > >> Upon reading this thread, I asked myself : what's a monoid ? I had no >> idea. I read some posts, then google "haskell monoid". > > it would be interesting to google "

Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Comments from OCaml Hacker Brian Hurt

2009-01-16 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello david48, Friday, January 16, 2009, 4:16:51 PM, you wrote: > Upon reading this thread, I asked myself : what's a monoid ? I had no > idea. I read some posts, then google "haskell monoid". it would be interesting to google "C++ class" or "Lisp function" and compare experience :) -- Best r