JuliaLang/julia — Issue #238: generalize min and max to non-numeric types
Author: StefanKarpinski
Created: 2011-10-23 23:10:47+00:00
State: open
Labels: enhancements, speculative

Since `<` is generic and applies not only to numeric types, in principle, min and max should also be, although then having negative and positive infinities as the zero-argument default is wrong.