In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > David C. Ullrich: > > I didn't mention what's below because it doesn't seem > > likely that saying max([]) = -infinity and > > min([]) = +infinity is going to make the OP happy... > > Well, it sounds cute having Neginfinite and Infinite as built-int > objects that can be compared to any other type and are < of or > of > everything else but themselves.
Like I said, I'm not going to say anything about how Python should be. If I were going to comment on that I'd say it would be cute but possibly silly to actually add to the core. But in the math library I made some time ago there was an AbsoluteZero with the property that when you added it to x you got x for any x whatever (got used as the default additive identity for classes that didn't have an add_id defined...) > Probably they can be useful as > sentinels, but in Python I nearly never use sentinels anymore, and > they can probably give some other problems... > > Bye, > bearophile -- David C. Ullrich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
