Re: Min and Max

[Rici Lake <lua@...>]

On 25-Aug-05, at 11:39 AM, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:

> >      rmin = rmin min value
> >      rmax = rmax max value
>
> If a<=b returned a instead of true, we could write "a<=b or b" for min
> and "a>=b or b" for max :)

True enough. As long as no-one thought of defining __lt for booleans 
such that false < true :)

> > This makes reductions a little easier to write,
>
> Lua 5.1 offers the value math.huge, which you can use as the neutral
> element for min.

Yes, but that only works for numbers, not (for example) for strings.