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The Alt documentation says:
The Alt type class identifies an associative operation on a type constructor. It is similar to Semigroup, except that it applies to types of kind
* -> *
, like Array or List, rather than concrete types like String or Number.
I think this is misleading because my understanding of the phrase "concrete type" is that it refers to a specific, named type, as opposed to a type variable. So I would say that Array
, List
, String
, and Number
are all concrete. The important point here is just to distinguish types of kind Type
with types of kind Type -> Type
, so I'd suggest just saying that, and avoiding the word "concrete".
garyb and kl0tl
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