Well-put. Thanks! - Conal<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Dougal Stanton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ithika@gmail.com">ithika@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:54 PM, ChrisK <<a href="mailto:haskell@list.mightyreason.com">haskell@list.mightyreason.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> So the original article, which coined 'Appendable', did so without much<br>
> thought in the middle of a long post. But it does show the thinking was<br>
> about collections and there is one ONE instance of Monoid at<br>
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> <a href="http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Data-Monoid.html#t%3AMonoid" target="_blank">http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Data-Monoid.html#t%3AMonoid</a><br>
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> that is about a collection (Monoid ([] a)) that has a split operation.<br>
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The blind man at the back takes firm hold of the tail and says, "But<br>
why do we need to call it an *elephant*? No-one knows what that is.<br>
Everyone knows what a rope is, so we should just call it a rope."<br>
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And that is how the elephant came to be labelled a rope in all the guide books.<br>
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:-)<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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D<br>
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