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authorChris Martin <ch.martin@gmail.com>2017-03-13 15:18:33 -0400
committerBen Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org>2017-03-13 15:18:38 -0400
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Maybe Monoid doc: "is no semigroup" -> "used to be no semigroup"
Reviewers: austin, hvr, bgamari Reviewed By: bgamari Subscribers: rwbarton, thomie Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D3312
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diff --git a/libraries/base/GHC/Base.hs b/libraries/base/GHC/Base.hs
index 8548da68b1..3c3dbd3c7b 100644
--- a/libraries/base/GHC/Base.hs
+++ b/libraries/base/GHC/Base.hs
@@ -317,8 +317,8 @@ instance Monoid Ordering where
-- <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoid>: \"Any semigroup @S@ may be
-- turned into a monoid simply by adjoining an element @e@ not in @S@
-- and defining @e*e = e@ and @e*s = s = s*e@ for all @s ∈ S@.\" Since
--- there is no \"Semigroup\" typeclass providing just 'mappend', we
--- use 'Monoid' instead.
+-- there used to be no \"Semigroup\" typeclass providing just 'mappend',
+-- we use 'Monoid' instead.
--
-- @since 2.01
instance Monoid a => Monoid (Maybe a) where