On Sep 8, 8:54 am, Boris Borcic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David C. Ullrich wrote: > > > (ii) If A is a subset of B then we should have > > max(A) <= max(B). This requires that max(empty set) > > be something that's smaller than everything else. > > So we give up on that. > > Er, what about instances of variations/elaborations on > > class Smaller(object) : __cmp__ = lambda *_ : -1 > > ? > > Cheers, BB
You still don't have the property max(X) is in X. And it's the equivalent of a special builtin constant for max on the empty set. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
