Maximum and Minimum monoids

[Strake]

On 28/12/2012, Edward Kmett <ekmett at gmail.com> wrote:
> And they are already present in the semigroups package with those names and
> that Monoid.

Ah, sorry, missed the Monoid instance.

On 28/12/2012, Gabriel Gonzalez <gabriel439 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Moreover, the entire Bounded constraint seems wrong in principle. There
> is no intuitive reason why some type should be bounded to be able to
> take a maximum of a set of elements.  The Ord constraint should be
> sufficient to define a maximum.

No; the set may be empty.

> I also don't think it is a good idea to have direct Monoid instances for
> Max and Min, because they behave weirdly on empty lists.  Do you really
> think that "minimum [] :: Int" should be defined?

If we had the Bounded constraint, it wouldn't be.