On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:52 AM, Gwern Branwen <gwe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Jean-Philippe Bernardy
> <jeanphilippe.berna...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Initializable is less restrictive than monoid (no mappend); so it's
>> useful to keep as such.
>> Adding Monoid => Initializable is ok but requires overlapping
>> instances in many places I'm afraid.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> JP.
>
> Is that bad? I mean, if we can get a whole bunch of Initializable instances,
> are some pragmas a bad thing? (I'll admit I don't really understand this; I
> just have an intuition that we should be able to steal mempty for initial,
> if the former is defined.)

Not very bad. I can make the code a bit more opaque.

-- JP

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