Proposal: Add Data.Semigroup to base, as a superclass of Monoid

[Petr Pudlák]

Dne 06/13/2013 07:05 PM, Stephen Tetley napsal(a):
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> I'm against adding Semigroup to Base as it only has one useful operation in
> the class and no useful generic functions (without adding more overhead to
> Base - non-empty lists, naturals...).
The most useful function from Semigroups for me is `times1p` (or its 
monoidal variant `timesN`). What about adding a function similar to 
`timesN` (perhaps with another name) to Prelude (and implement `(^)` 
with it)?

   Petr

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