Am Dienstag, 17. März 2009 18:43 schrieben Sie: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:06 AM, Wolfgang Jeltsch > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > What is a “generalized monoid”? According to the grammatical construction > > (adjective plus noun), it should be a special kind of monoid > > There's no such implication in English. The standard example used by > linguists is "fake gun".
Okay, but this is a corner case isn’t it? And the phrase “generalized monoid” has another problem. It’s not a single monoid that is generalized but the “monoid concept”. The class of monoids is extended to become the class of categories. Best wishes, Wolfgang _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
