On Monday, 23 April 2012 at 16:45:19 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Do you mean the min of a single item is the item itself?
Yes.
This is right, but this case is better (more handy) left as function overload to ask for the min of a single given iterable.
Would this transparantly work for an item and a set consisting of one item?
Of course, expressing an integer a by min(a) is not straighforward. I do not expect anybody writing this explicitly. Nevertheless, it seems to be a valid case. I was wondering whether it could be useful in generative programming in order to avoid a special case somewhere. Cheers, Famous
