Honestly, I've always been dissatisfied with this solution and would have preferred the keyword-argument solution that I proposed back when we were discussing this. Having lived with the maximum thing for a while and seen others encounter it, I'm no less dissatisfied. I still type max when I need maximum almost every time.
> On May 5, 2014, at 9:36 AM, Billou Bielour <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm not saying that the help is not clear, or that the behavior is > surprising, but only that there no information in the words "max" and > "maximum" that allows you to guess or remember their behaviors. I mean one is > just the abbreviation of the other. > For example if I tell you I have two functions, "ceil" and "ceiling", can you > guess what is the difference between the two ?
