What Monoids teach us about software

Re:What Monoids teach us about software by jstimpfle on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @02:38PM (#15241253)

I agree. But in some cases it might be nice to omit an explicit 0 or use some higher order combinator that is ergonomic just because it expects a monoid instance to be already prepared.

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Re:What Monoids teach us about software by whipoodle on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @04:52PM (#15242537)

So they make things a bit nicer, sometimes. Alrighty then.

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Re:What Monoids teach us about software by tome on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @05:00PM (#15242625)

Amongst the things they do is that they sometimes make things a bit nicer in a completely generic way which is reusable across many problem domains.

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