Maximum and Minimum monoids

[Henning Thielemann]

On Thu, 27 Dec 2012, Henning Thielemann wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Dec 2012, Gabriel Gonzalez wrote:
>
>> I don't know if this has been brought up before or not, but would it be 
>> possible to add the Maximum and Minimum monoids to Data.Monoid?  The 
>> following implementations extend the traditional semigroups using Maybe.
>
> I remember there was a discussion on this topic some years ago. If you want I 
> may search for the old discussion.

I think that it was the discussion on "Proposal: Max and Min for Monoid" 
started by Jake McArthur:
    http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2010-September/014347.html

But it seems that the discussion was already performed once more.