Issue 4705

[Christophe]

"Simen Kjaeraas" , dans le message (digitalmars.D:144599), a écrit :
> That said, there are cases where a < b is not enough, owing to some
> types not having a nice and simple comparison. Hence, binary
> predicates should also be allowed. I just feel that in the general
> case, binary predicates dilute the meaning of min/max. Would you
> consider this code good?
>      min!"a > b"(range);

Programers should know that the appropriate predicate for a comparison 
is the less function. If "a>b" is your less function, the the minimum of 
the range is indeed the maximum of the range ranked with the ordinary 
comparator, but it's still a minimum using this compararison function.

Of course, writing min!"a>b" is not that good, because it is confusing, 
and the programmer should have used max!"a<b", but you cannot always 
prevent the programmer from doing stupid things. You can help him by 
providing max along with min so he does not have to do something like 
this. (and provide maxPos along with minPos).

extremum would make me think both maximums and minimums are returned.

-- 
Christophe