Re:What Monoids teach us about software
by tome on Friday September 15, 2017 @02:47AM
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> You can't just say that you can "combine" elements "monoidally" for it to mean anything. ... For that matter, "combine monoidally" is a phrase that has 2 Google hits at the moment, which indicates to me that in real life, you still have to resort to less-shiny words to describe things.
There doesn't seems anything hugely objectionable to me in saying "Bars combine monoidally". But if you prefer, one can say "Bar forms a monoid under baz and quux".
It may not be obvious to you that it increases simplicity merely to combine two words into one but across an ecosystem of perhaps a thousand Monoid instances it indeed is.
There doesn't seems anything hugely objectionable to me in saying "Bars combine monoidally". But if you prefer, one can say "Bar forms a monoid under baz and quux".
It may not be obvious to you that it increases simplicity merely to combine two words into one but across an ecosystem of perhaps a thousand Monoid instances it indeed is.