monoid-subclasses-0.4: Subclasses of Monoid

Safe HaskellTrustworthy
LanguageHaskell2010

Data.Monoid.Cancellative

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Description

This module defines the Monoid => ReductiveMonoid => (CancellativeMonoid, GCDMonoid) class hierarchy.

The ReductiveMonoid class introduces operation </> which is the inverse of <>. For the Sum monoid, this operation is subtraction; for Product it is division and for Set it's the set difference. A ReductiveMonoid is not a full group because </> may return Nothing.

The CancellativeMonoid subclass does not add any operation but it provides the additional guarantee that <> can always be undone with </>. Thus Sum is a CancellativeMonoid but Product is not because (0*n)/0 is not defined.

The GCDMonoid subclass adds the gcd operation which takes two monoidal arguments and finds their greatest common divisor, or (more generally) the greatest monoid that can be extracted with the </> operation from both.

All monoid subclasses listed above are for Abelian, i.e., commutative or symmetric monoids. Since most practical monoids in Haskell are not Abelian, each of the these classes has two symmetric superclasses:

Synopsis

Symmetric, commutative monoid classes

class Monoid m => CommutativeMonoid m Source

Class of all Abelian ({i.e.}, commutative) monoids that satisfy the commutativity property:

a <> b == b <> a

class (CommutativeMonoid m, LeftReductiveMonoid m, RightReductiveMonoid m) => ReductiveMonoid m where Source

Class of Abelian monoids with a partial inverse for the Monoid <> operation. The inverse operation </> must satisfy the following laws:

maybe a (b <>) (a </> b) == a
maybe a (<> b) (a </> b) == a

Methods

(</>) :: m -> m -> Maybe m infix 5 Source

class (LeftCancellativeMonoid m, RightCancellativeMonoid m, ReductiveMonoid m) => CancellativeMonoid m Source

Subclass of ReductiveMonoid where </> is a complete inverse of the Monoid <> operation. The class instances must satisfy the following additional laws:

(a <> b) </> a == Just b
(a <> b) </> b == Just a

class (ReductiveMonoid m, LeftGCDMonoid m, RightGCDMonoid m) => GCDMonoid m where Source

Class of Abelian monoids that allow the greatest common denominator to be found for any two given values. The operations must satisfy the following laws:

gcd a b == commonPrefix a b == commonSuffix a b
Just a' = a </> p && Just b' = b </> p
   where p = gcd a b

If a GCDMonoid happens to also be a CancellativeMonoid, it should additionally satisfy the following laws:

gcd (a <> b) (a <> c) == a <> gcd b c
gcd (a <> c) (b <> c) == gcd a b <> c

Methods

gcd :: m -> m -> m Source

Instances

Asymmetric monoid classes

class Monoid m => LeftReductiveMonoid m where Source

Class of monoids with a left inverse of mappend, satisfying the following law:

isPrefixOf a b == isJust (stripPrefix a b)
maybe b (a <>) (stripPrefix a b) == b
a `isPrefixOf` (a <> b)

| Every instance definition has to implement at least the stripPrefix method. Its complexity should be no worse than linear in the length of the prefix argument.

Minimal complete definition

stripPrefix

Methods

isPrefixOf :: m -> m -> Bool Source

stripPrefix :: m -> m -> Maybe m Source

class Monoid m => RightReductiveMonoid m where Source

Class of monoids with a right inverse of mappend, satisfying the following law:

isSuffixOf a b == isJust (stripSuffix a b)
maybe b (<> a) (stripSuffix a b) == b
b `isSuffixOf` (a <> b)

| Every instance definition has to implement at least the stripSuffix method. Its complexity should be no worse than linear in the length of the suffix argument.

Minimal complete definition

stripSuffix

Methods

isSuffixOf :: m -> m -> Bool Source

stripSuffix :: m -> m -> Maybe m Source

class LeftReductiveMonoid m => LeftGCDMonoid m where Source

Class of monoids capable of finding the equivalent of greatest common divisor on the left side of two monoidal values. The methods' complexity should be no worse than linear in the length of the common prefix. The following laws must be respected:

stripCommonPrefix a b == (p, a', b')
   where p = commonPrefix a b
         Just a' = stripPrefix p a
         Just b' = stripPrefix p b
p == commonPrefix a b && p <> a' == a && p <> b' == b
   where (p, a', b') = stripCommonPrefix a b

Minimal complete definition

Nothing

Methods

commonPrefix :: m -> m -> m Source

stripCommonPrefix :: m -> m -> (m, m, m) Source

class RightReductiveMonoid m => RightGCDMonoid m where Source

Class of monoids capable of finding the equivalent of greatest common divisor on the right side of two monoidal values. The methods' complexity must be no worse than linear in the length of the common suffix. The following laws must be respected:

stripCommonSuffix a b == (a', b', s)
   where s = commonSuffix a b
         Just a' = stripSuffix p a
         Just b' = stripSuffix p b
s == commonSuffix a b && a' <> s == a && b' <> s == b
   where (a', b', s) = stripCommonSuffix a b

Minimal complete definition

Nothing

Methods

commonSuffix :: m -> m -> m Source

stripCommonSuffix :: m -> m -> (m, m, m) Source