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		freyrs3 on Feb 28, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: C++17: I See a Monad in Your Future Not every monoid has an append operation, most don't.

dllthomas on March 1, 2014 [–]

To be fair, Monoid's operation in Haskell is called 'mappend'.

dragonwriter on March 1, 2014 | [–]

"Haskell calls it that" isn't the same thing as "its a good descriptive name".

dllthomas on March 1, 2014 | | [–]

Of course.

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