Edward Cherlin wrote:
That means that we have to straighten out the functions that can
return either a Boolean or an item of the argument type.
Comparison functions < > <= >= = != should return only Booleans,
I'm not sure but Perl6 could do better or at least trickier ;)
Let's assume that < > <= >= when chained return an accumulated
boolean and the least or greatest value where the condition was
true. E.g.
0 < 2 < 3 returns 0 but true
1 < 2 < 1 returns 1 but false
4 < 5 < 2 returns 2 but false
Then the reduce versions [<] and [<=] naturally come out as min
and strict min respectively.
Is it correct that [min] won't parse unless min is declared
as an infix op, which looks a bit strange?
if 3 min 4 { ... }
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TSa (Thomas Sandlaß)
