OpenEuphoria

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

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gm?.?e> Aug 07, 2007
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Derek Parnell wrote:

> 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? 
> 
> 'greatest' implies that there might be any number of things to test.
> 'greater' implies that there are only two things to test.
> 
> Thus ...
> 
>   function greatest( SEQUENCE )
> 
> and
> 
>   function greater (OBJECT, OBJECT)
> 
> But as you say, it is a subtle distinction that only some English speakers
> might
> pick up on.
> 
> So if we are going to have one signature of 'sequence' and another of 'object,
> object', how should we name the functions (consistently) to give the reader
> a mnemonic to tell them apart from each other?
> 
> I don't have an answer to that one yet.

How about
- find_min(SEQUENCE)
- find_max(SEQUENCE)
- min(SEQUENCE)
- max(SEQUENCE)
- lesser(OBJECT, OBJECT)
- greater(OBJECT, OBJECT)

I think this wouldn't cause confusion.

Regards,
   Juergen