David Neto
David Neto
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@ben-clayton suggested wording like `highest` `lowest` `smallest`. He dislikes `min` and `max` as confusing.
The concept of "lowest" is confusing. From an example at cppreference: | type | lowest() | min() | max() | | --- | --- | --- | --- | |...
1. FYI. The mathematical term we were looking for is "unit". https://encyclopediaofmath.org/wiki/Unit > An element e in a set M is called a left (right) unit (left (right) identity) with...
Let's make this concrete: Proposal 1: * unitMinFinite(T) -> T * the value e such that min(e,a) = min(a,e)=a for all finite a in T * T is any type...
> > FYI. The mathematical term we were looking for is "unit". > > https://encyclopediaofmath.org/wiki/Unit > > An element e in a set M is called a left (right) unit...
I'm hearing a lot of "meh" so: Proposal 4: In the spec, give an example, note, or table that spells out the literals for the special values. e.g. : >...
Hey @litherum will you have a proposal for this? A fallback is to give examples in the spec text rather than defining new things.
> A fallback is to give examples in the spec text rather than defining new things. I've made #3561 for this. It covers the concrete scalar numeric types. It gives...
Discussed in 2022-11-01 meeting. Excerpt from minutes: > MM: Functions named maxValue(), minValue(). We have precedence of the bitcast with type template. For float types, minValue() is the smallest positive...