On Thursday, September 15, 2011 10:39 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > On 9/15/11 12:14 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > > On Thursday, September 15, 2011 03:41 bearophile wrote: > >>> It seems > >>> (to me) more natural to give it a predicate to compare elements two at > >>> a time. This is what is used in c++ std lib. > >> > >> It's less natural. And D is not C++, there are more than just C++ > >> programmers in D. And it leads to longer& more complex code. > > > > I think that that's up for debate. I would fully expect a min/max > > function to be using a comparator function, which means using a binary > > predicate. Also, given that everything else in std.algorithm which takes > > a predicate is taking an actually predicate and not what should be > > compared, having max take something like "a.length" would be extremely > > bizarre. I don't find max!"a.length"(range) to be natural at all. Maybe > > it's more natural for someone with little to no programming experience, > > but I really don't think that your average programmer is going to find > > it more natural. > > > > - Jonathan M Davis > > I just realized argmax is exactly the name bearophile is looking for > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arg_max). I know, I'm awesome with names > like that. > > We should add argmax to phobos.
If we're going to add it, that name works fine with me (though it should probably be argMax for proper camelcasing). I'd hate to see max work that way though. - Jonathan M Davis
