From: Sam Kong <sam.s.kong@...>
Date: 2006-08-08T18:48:28+09:00
Subject: Re: min, max for Fixnum?

Hi Ronald,

Ronald Fischer wrote:
> Did I understand it right that there are no operators/functions
> predefined in Ruby for getting the minimum and maximum for two Fixnum?
> 
> I.e.
> 
>   def min(a,b)
>     a < b ? a : b
>   end
> 
> Or did I just overlook something?
> 
> Ronald

I think that min and max are very general, so they don't have to be 
limited to Fixnum.

How about [a, b].min or [a, b].max?

[1, 2].min #=> 1



Sam

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