Sujet : Re: Why don't people like lisp?
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.lang.lispDate : 03. Jul 2024, 07:21:53
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On Tue, 02 Jul 2024 17:15:56 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
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then it makes sense that the maximum of an empty list should be -∞,
Meh, it's just undefined. Otherwise you can't tell whether the list is
empty or actually contains -∞ as a value.
If it does contain that as a value, then it obviously doesn’t contain any
other values. There is an infinity of combinations of arguments to max
that give -∞ as the function result; what’s so special about
distinguishing the empty argument list?