[Haskell-cafe] Re: Monoid wants a (++) equivalent
Ross Paterson wrote: On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 04:53:05PM +0200, Thomas Davie wrote: On 1 Jul 2009, at 16:46, Edward Kmett wrote: I'm rather fond of the () suggestion, but would be happy with anything better than mappend! ;) I find it rather ugly, it has a lot of connotations of does not equals from other languages. Forget Pascal: think of it as a diamond. I too like shiny diamonds, as exemplified in http://apfelmus.nfshost.com/monoid-fingertree.html Regards, apfelmus -- http://apfelmus.nfshost.com ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
[Haskell-cafe] Re: Monoid wants a (++) equivalent
Ketil Malde ketil at malde.org writes: You know, this might be the right time to start expanding our vocabulary beyond seven bits. Since we're likely to keep mappend around as an alias for some time, people would have a grace period to adjust. How about U+2295 (circle with plus inside it)? Or, if we would like to stick to the 8-bit subset to keep those 8859-1 users happy, how about ยค (funny circle over an x, U+00A4) -k I can work with any symbols as long as they are easily typeable. ++ is 3 easy key press. `mappend` is 9. In both cases I don't need to look on keyboard as I know exactly where they are. However there is no way I can remember where U+00A4 is - probably it is not on all keyboards (reversing and @ gives me a lot of problems in UK keyboards. FR keyboards was nightmare just because a few keys where at different place). In fact I'd need to open keyboard mapping and search for symbol. A lot of trouble just for single symbol. To summarise - It doesn't matter is symbol is or isn't in ASCII or ISO 8859-1 as long as it can be produced easily. Regards ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Monoid wants a (++) equivalent
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Maciej Piechotka uzytkown...@gmail.comwrote: I can work with any symbols as long as they are easily typeable. ++ is 3 easy key press. `mappend` is 9. In both cases I don't need to look on keyboard as I know exactly where they are. However there is no way I can remember where U+00A4 is - probably it is not on all keyboards (reversing and @ gives me a lot of problems in UK keyboards. FR keyboards was nightmare just because a few keys where at different place). In fact I'd need to open keyboard mapping and search for symbol. A lot of trouble just for single symbol. To summarise - It doesn't matter is symbol is or isn't in ASCII or ISO 8859-1 as long as it can be produced easily. I would like for my font to have a glyph for it as well so my code doesn't look like tofu. -- Johan ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
