ANNOUNCE: yap-0.0 - yet another prelude

[Sebastian Fischer]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Paterson, Ross <R.Paterson at city.ac.uk>wrote:

> Sebastian Fischer writes:
> > +1 for adding Monoid and Semiring earlier rather than later which
> > would allow me to drop my own definitions for semirings in my
> > libraries for regular expression matching and parallel programming.
>
> I see your versions of + and * are infixr rather than infixl.
> Is that important?


I copied fixities from the Prelude [1] for + and * but don't know why they
are infixl there.

I think, I even prefer right associative operators. For example, for the
free semiring "bag of lists", + for bag union resembles ++ which is right
associative.

Best regards,
Sebastian

[1] http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/standard-prelude.html
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