On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 at 02:19, Clément Pit-Claudel <
address@hidden> wrote:
FWIW, I'm not a fan of using either (min) or (max) to represent minus infinity; it looks a bit odd. Many other languages have an infinity constant already, so that pattern is well established; making (max) an alias for either of the infinities is prone to introducing confusion.
For anyone curious, the way to do it in APL is ⌈/⍬ and ⌊/⍬, which literally means take the max and min values of an empty list, so it's not completely unheard of.
Regards,
Elias