On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:25 PM, castironpi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 4, 2:42 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> David C. Ullrich: >> >> > At least in mathematics, the sum of the elements of >> > the empty set _is_ 0, while the maximum element of the >> > empty set is undefined. >> >> What do you think about my idea of adding that 'default' argument to >> the max()/min() functions? >> >> Bye, >> bearophile > > For max and min, why can't you just add your argument to the set > itself? > > The reason max([]) is undefined is that max( S ) is in S.
It makes sense. >The reason sum([]) is 0 is that sum( [ x ] ) - x = 0. It doesn't make sense to me. What do you set x to? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
