Re: bignum branch

[Paul Eggert]

Tom Tromey wrote:
> Paul> min and max propagate any NaNs they find.
>
> This part I don't understand, since my mental mode of min/max is that
> they are iteratively applying < or >

The goal is more to have useful max and min functions than to have a particular 
implementation tactic. Returning a NaN is more useful, since it warns the caller 
that the min or max expression doesn't have a reasonable numeric interpretation.