Re: math.min, math.max

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 1. If the argument list always has a first element, there is no reason to
> > stay with numbers. Anything for which less-than is defined can work.
> 
> This could be useful! Actually, if you asked me if this was already
> the behavior, I wouldn't know it for sure.

This is how it is implemented now (for the next work version). The
main motivation is for working correctly with integers, too:

> math.max(4611686018427387901, 461168601842738790)  --> 4611686018427387901

The original version would lose precision in that case.

-- Roberto