OpenEuphoria

Re: Missing in misc.e

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at yahoo??om> Jul 20, 2007
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CChris wrote:
> 
> 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
> 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

I still think it's elegant. Why have two functions that do the exact same thing?
In fact, I'd write it to return an index as well:

global function min(sequence s)
    object x
    integer index

    x = s[1]
    for i = 2 to length(s) do
        if x > s[i] then
            x = s[i]
            index = i
        end if
    end for

return {x, index} -- depending on what is of more interest this order could
    be swapped

end function

Implement max() similarly or use one function with a flag value as you did
somewhere up above.

Personally, I prefer weak-typing.

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--anonymous
"Any performance problem can be solved by removing a level of indirection."
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--C.A.R. Hoare
j.