G'day all. On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 08:02:48PM -0400, Daniel Peebles wrote:
But we don't want to imply it's commutative either. Having something "bidirectional" like <> or <+> feels more commutative than associative to me.
Quoting John Meacham <j...@repetae.net>:
Not really, think of '++', which doesn't commute but is visually symmetric, or Data.Sequence.<>, or the common use of <> to mean concatination in pretty printers.
Other good examples are && and ||. Cheers, Andrew Bromage _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe