OpenEuphoria

Re: Include file such as 'compare.e' or 'find.e'

• Posted by CChris <christian.cuvier at agri?ulture?gouv.fr> Aug 06, 2007
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Salix wrote:
> 
> CChris wrote:
> > 
> > As for the min/max names, they were seen by some as ambiguous. The current
> > names
> > are more precise; they may be a problem to tose whose mastery of english is
> > minimal.
> 
> I don't get this. Why is it ambiguous? Why is not it precise? Sorry, most 
> probably it is due to my limited English knowledge. 
> 

Read please
http://www.openeuphoria.org/cgi-bin/esearch.exu?fromMonth=5&fromYear=C&toMonth=7&toYear=C&postedBy=luethje&keywords=min

> I don't think that your comment is in line Fernando Bauer's (excellent) 
> arguments at <a
> href="http://www.openeuphoria.org/EUforum/m15576.html">http://www.openeuphoria.org/EUforum/m15576.html</a>
> .
> 

As I said, I don't share the current view, which is why I had given other names
to these routines in the first place. Fernando is basically right imho. But there
seems to be a majority against it.

CChris

> > As for the location, I think misc.e is an even more natural place to look
> > for
> > these routines than math.e. Yet the latter is still better than having yet
> > another
> > include file.
> 
> I would hesitate to add anything to misc.e as otherwise I should 
> put everything there. 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Salix