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Re: Deprecating min/max extension in C++

Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com> writes:

| On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 07:04:39AM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| > That is a rather weak argument.  What is the type of the argument if
| > it were possible?
| 
| float obviously.  You follow the standard promotion/type resolution
| rules you already handle for operators like +.  Done correctly,
| min/max are operators too.

Nobody is disputing that min/max are operators.  However, the point is
that both min and max have a uniform requirement as far as the types
of their operands are concerned.  The rest of the message you left out
have questions you did not address.

-- Gaby
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