[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 326 (quick location possibility) (original) (raw)

David Eppstein eppstein at ics.uci.edu
Tue Jan 27 18:41:23 EST 2004


In article <001001c3e4ef$dd9e4680$6402a8c0 at arkdesktop>, "Andrew Koenig" <ark-mlist at att.net> wrote:

Unfortunately, no. The identity element for min is Max, and the identity element for max is Min.

Oops, you're right! Then, definitely, min() and max() should not be the official names of the universal min and max objects.

-- David Eppstein http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/ Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science



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