bug#42644: 28.0.50; Please let max and min accept zero arguments

[Michael Heerdegen]

Hello,

I want to suggest to make the functions `max' and `min' accept zero
arguments, with

  (max) => negative infinity
  (min) => positive infinity

That would be mathematically consistent, and would offer an easier to
remember syntax to specify the infinities (at least for mathematicians).
I hate the read syntax suggested in the manual, I have to look it up
every single time.  Ironically, most of the time I use it it's the
initial value for a max or min number sequence folding.

`seq-max' and `seq-min' should also support it.

TIA,

Michael.


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