Moritz Lenz wrote: > Please take a look at http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=73356: > > <moritz_> rakudo: say max(1..5) > <p6eval> rakudo c05478: OUTPUT«-Inf» > * masak submits rakudobug for max(1..5) > > The weird thing is that it is right, according to the current spec. It says > > our multi max( Ordering @by, �...@values ) > our multi max( Ordering $by, �...@values ) > > so the range 1..5 is actually bound to @by of the first candidate, > leaving *...@values empty, and the default value of -Inf for a max() with > no values seems to be quite OK. > > Of course this is not what the casual reader suspects. > My proposed solution is to get rid of the sub form of max() entirely. > Any objections?
Why not just change the "by" parameter to be named instead of positional? Frankly, I don't understand why that isn't already the case. -- Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang
