Ticket: <a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3339">http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3339</a><br><br>From the ticket: <br><p>
This proposal was, I think, originally suggested by Jules Bean. The idea is to add two functions to the <tt>Data.Monoid</tt> module, <tt>(+>)</tt> and <tt>(<+)</tt>, corresponding to different uses of <tt>mappend</tt>. These should not be methods of the <tt>Monoid</tt> typeclass, but top-level functions.
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I hope (but slightly doubt) that the visual nature of the two operators
might help to counter the thought that monoids are just for gluing
things together.
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<pre class="wiki">(+>) :: (Monoid a) => a -> a -> a<br>a +> b = a `mappend` b<br><br>(<+) :: (Monoid a) => a -> a -> a<br>a <+ b = b `mappend` a<br><br>infixl 4 +><br>infixl 4 <+<br></pre>
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Proposed deadline: two weeks.
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If this looks reasonable, I'll attach darcs patches.
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