Comment on Snap for Beginners: Haskell Web DevelopmentparentComments−Dewie12yA monoid could also be the natural numbers combined with addition for example.Then you can think of it as concatenating two unary numbers.−Filligree12yOr multiplication.−Dewie12yn * m is the concatenation of n, applied m times. n * 1 then means to concatenate one n with nothing, yielding n, ie. the identity.−judk12yBut that's a different kind of concatenation, not the concatenation of m and n.−Filligree12yAll right, I'm game. How about function compositions? :-)
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Then you can think of it as concatenating two unary numbers.
Or multiplication.
n * m is the concatenation of n, applied m times. n * 1 then means to concatenate one n with nothing, yielding n, ie. the identity.
But that's a different kind of concatenation, not the concatenation of m and n.
All right, I'm game. How about function compositions? :-)