Maximum and Minimum monoids

Strake strake888 at gmail.com
Sat Dec 29 00:52:45 CET 2012


On 28/12/2012, Strake <strake888 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.

Derp. Sorry, I was thinking Integer.
Well, it's bounded, so yes, it should be. Now we have an exception.



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