OpenEuphoria

Re: Missing in misc.e

• Posted by ChrisBurch2 <crylex at fre?uk.co?uk> Jul 20, 2007
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CChris wrote:
> 
> Jason Gade wrote:
> > 
> > Juergen Luethje wrote:
> > > Not for me.
> > > Also, of course finding the smallest element of a list is the general
> > > principle, and finding the smallest of 2 given values is a special case.
> > > This means:
> > > a) A special function
> > >       x = mini2(a,b)
> > >    is not necessary, because always the general function can be used
> > >    instead:
> > >       x = min({a,b})  
> > 
> > If this works, then you wouldn't need two different functions, would you?
> > That
> > seems pretty elegant to me. (Note: I haven't tried to implement it).
> > 
> 
> Not elegant, as the curly braces are not needed.
> Confusing, because the min() notation to compare two objects is so universal.
> 
> If we could overload symbols, ie having different routines share the same name

Don't you dare! (  )

Chris

> with different signatures, because they do the same thing to different sorts
> or forms of arguments, then both might be called min() or max() for more
> convenience.
> But I doubt this will be ever possible in Eu because it is weakly typed.
> 
> CChris
> 
> > 
> > --
> > "Any programming problem can be solved by adding a level of indirection."
> > --anonymous
> > "Any performance problem can be solved by removing a level of indirection."
> > --M. Haertel
> > "Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
> > --C.A.R. Hoare
> > j.