On Sep 5, 3:28 am, "Manu Hack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?
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