monoid-subclasses-0.3.2: Subclasses of Monoid

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Data.Monoid.Null

Description

This module defines the MonoidNull class and some of its instances.

Synopsis

Documentation

class Monoid m => MonoidNull m whereSource

Extension of Monoid that allows testing a value for equality with mempty. The following law must hold:

null x == (x == mempty)

Furthermore, the performance of this method should be constant, i.e., independent of the length of its argument.

Methods

null :: m -> BoolSource

class MonoidNull m => PositiveMonoid m Source

Subclass of Monoid for types whose values have no inverse, with the exception of mempty. More formally, the class instances must satisfy the following law:

null (x <> y) == (null x && null y)