Proposal: add isEmpty to Monoid

[Dr.Koster]

I see, Thanks！


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From: Simon Jakobi <simon.jakobi at googlemail.com>
Date: Sat,May 25,2019 2:45 PM
To: Dr.Koster <drkoster at qq.com>
Cc: libraries <libraries at haskell.org>
Subject: Re: Proposal: add isEmpty to Monoid



The monoid-subclasses packages provides a MonoidNull class that you could use:

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/monoid-subclasses-0.4.6.1/docs/Data-Monoid-Null.html



Am Sa., 25. Mai 2019 um 07:56 Uhr schrieb Dr.Koster <drkoster at qq.com>:

It's often useful to have a generalized null/unit test, e.g. to check if a monadic stream `m a` reaches EOF.  A workaround is to use `Eq a, Monoid a` constraint and use `== mempty` test. But this is no only inefficient for some type, but also impossible for some monoids, such as Builders.

I propose add this test `isEmpty :: a -> Bool` to `Monoid`, to provide the ability to check if a value is the unit value.


Cheers
Han Dong~
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