Mark Dickinson <[email protected]> added the comment:
> Of course, there are subtle implications of how it will be implemented
Indeed. Ideally, as you mention, the implementation would only use __lt__ (as
with sort and bisect). I think that constraint only leaves one reasonable
choice: namely, max and min for multiple args would be functionally equivalent
to max_list and min_list below:
def min2(x, y):
return y if y < x else x
def max2(x, y):
return x if y < x else y
def min_list(xs):
return reduce(min2, xs)
def max_list(xs):
return reduce(max2, xs)
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