On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 at 02:19, Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>
wrote:


> FWIW, I'm not a fan of using either (min) or (max) to represent minus
> infinity; it looks a bit odd.  Many other languages have an infinity
> constant already, so that pattern is well established; making (max) an
> alias for either of the infinities is prone to introducing confusion.
>

For anyone curious, the way to do it in APL is ⌈/⍬ and ⌊/⍬, which literally
means take the max and min values of an empty list, so it's not completely
unheard of.

Regards,
Elias