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Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch |
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Tue, 28 Aug 2018 08:15:19 -0400 |
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> That’s great if you’re applying max or min to a possibly-empty collection of
> values. But if you’ve got a loop where you’re tracking a minimum/maximum
> value along with doing other stuff (possibly including computing the values
> you’re looking for the minimum of), this may not help much.
It helps because you can use (min) or (max) as your starting value.
> If “1.0e+INF” is hard to remember, how about defining symbols “+inifinity”
Pip's suggestion is to use (max) for that.
Stefan
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, (continued)
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2018/08/28
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Stefan Monnier, 2018/08/28
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2018/08/29
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2018/08/27
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Pip Cet, 2018/08/27
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Paul Eggert, 2018/08/27
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Ken Raeburn, 2018/08/28
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Helmut Eller, 2018/08/28
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2018/08/28
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Pip Cet, 2018/08/28
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Herring, Davis, 2018/08/28
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Helmut Eller, 2018/08/29
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Pip Cet, 2018/08/29
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Alan Mackenzie, 2018/08/31
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2018/08/31
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Alan Mackenzie, 2018/08/31
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Herring, Davis, 2018/08/31
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Stefan Monnier, 2018/08/31