[Haskell-cafe] Monoid wants a (++) equivalent

[Thomas Davie]

On 30 Jun 2009, at 22:19, Daniel Fischer wrote:

> Am Dienstag 30 Juni 2009 20:56:10 schrieb David Leimbach:
>> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Brent Yorgey <byorgey at seas.upenn.edu 
>> >wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 09:45:45AM -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
>>>> I've thought for a while that it would be very nice indeed if the
>>>> Monoid class had a more concise operator for infix appending than  
>>>> "a
>>>> `mappend`
>>>
>>> b".
>>>
>>>> I wonder if other people are of a similar opinion, and if so,  
>>>> whether
>>>
>>> this
>>>
>>>> is worth submitting a libraries@ proposal over.
>>>
>>> +1.
>>>
>>> IIRC Jules Bean has proposed using (+>) for this purpose, which I
>>> like.  It has the advantages of (a) not clashing with any other
>>> (common) operators, (b) making more obvious the fact that mappend is
>>> not necessarily commutative, and (c) providing the obvious (<+) for
>>> 'flip mappend' which is sometimes useful.
>>
>> I actually think this proposal is pretty excellent.
>
> I actually think your assessment of the proposal is correct.

I excellently think your proposal is a correct assessment.