At 18:44 05/06/03 +0100, Liyang HU wrote:
> I'd just about figured the ShowS idea, but I've yet to get a handle on this
> idea of [a] 'monoid'.


Might http://www.engr.mun.ca/~theo/Misc/haskell_and_monads.htm be of any
help?

Ah, thanks. I see:


[[
A monoid is an algebraic structure consisting of a set S and an operation * with the following properties ...
]]


which is a datum I was missing. (I still don't claim to understand it all, but at least I get a sense of whet the term monoid means.)

#g


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