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		carterschonwald on March 2, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Snap for Beginners: Haskell Web Development yes, thats a commutative monoid. Thinking of a monoid as "concatenation" is much more general concept that includes that one

judk on March 2, 2014 [–]

Only by removing all meaning from the word "concatenation" and taking is to mean "associative with identity" , which is what a monoid is. Concatenation is a special case, not the whole of monoid.

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