See the relevant trac ticket [1] and the linked mailing list thread. Erik
[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3339 On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 22:58, aditya bhargava <[email protected]> wrote: > After asking this question: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9963050/standard-way-of-joining-two-data-texts-without-mappend > > I found out that the new infix operator for `mappend` is (<>). I'm wondering > why ghc 7.4 didn't generalize (++) to work on monoids instead. To me, (++) > is much more clear. (<>) means "not equal to" for me. Can anyone shed light > on this decision? > > > Adit > > -- > adit.io > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
