Re: math.min, math.max

[Oliver Kroth <oliver.kroth@...>]

I agree Thomas,

and if I want to avoid the nil as result, I could either add my 
favourite minimum (maximum) to the argument list, or use short-circuit 
evaluation:

mimimum = min() or -math.huge
maximum = max() or  math.huge

-- Oliver

> On 04/09/2014 12:27 PM, Dirk Laurie wrote:
> > But the only value of x for which always y = max(x,y) is 
> > x=-math.huge. At present you don't get nil, you get an error. 
>
> The only _numeric_ value. But if you define max(nil, y) to be y and 
> min(nil, y) to be y as well you would have another value that would 
> work for both functions.
>
> --
> Thomas