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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Artitmetic functions
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Date: 22 Feb 91 02:45:53 GMT
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Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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>   min(LIST)	- numerically lowest of LIST
>   max(LIST)	- numerically highest of LIST

I would not restrict this to numeric context.

	min("def","ghi","abc","jkl")

might profitably return "abc".

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My opinion of Johan's suggestions in general is that Larry should
implement most of them right away!  They are well in keeping with the
Perl "Swiss Army Guillotine" philosophy.  Better to do it now, before
things get cast in stone.