Proposal: Max and Min for Monoid

[Conal Elliott]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Edward Kmett <ekmett at gmail.com> wrote:

> The biggest problem with splitting AddBounds is that the result is then not
> able to be Bounded as it only supplies one bound.
>

Right.  It would take both applications to be in Bounded.

>
> This defeats the purpose of constructing it, because now it cannot be
> composed with Min/Max.
>

Yeah.  For using in Min/Max we'd have to have Bounded, which is overkill, or
a decomposition of Bounded, which probably makes more sense anyway but has
the usual backward-compat issues.


>
> -Edward
>
> On Sep 23, 2010, at 7:20 PM, Conal Elliott <conal at conal.net> wrote:
>
> That extra bit bothered me, too.  One could split AddBound into AddMax and
> AddMin.  Perhaps better is to fix the problem upstream, splitting Bounded
> into WithMin and WithMax.
>
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Ross Paterson < <ross at soi.city.ac.uk>
> ross at soi.city.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 03:08:48PM -0400, Edward Kmett wrote:
>> > On the other hand, composing AddBounds introduces another element on the
>> other
>> > side, which serves as an annihilator when composed with Min and Max.
>> This is
>> > fine for some applications, but I don't believe it subsumes MinPriority
>> and
>> > MaxPriority.
>>
>> This extra element at the other end introduced by AddBounds bothers
>> me too.  So I agree with the conclusion that we need both versions that
>> add a maximum/minimum, and ones that take it from Bounded.  That leaves
>> the question of which variant deserves to be called Max/Min.
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