Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Aug 2001 20:34:34 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [IDEA+RFC] Possible solution for min()/max() war |
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On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Brad Chapman wrote:
> > > > > > What do you think, sir? > > > > Use different inline functions for signed and unsigned. > > Explicitly. > > OK. That sounds reasonable, but do we want to do another forced > change, or do we want to hide it? That seems to be the root of the problem: > keeping the same API but making it work _right_.
Existing API is wrong. "Hiding" is precisely what's wrong here - we use the same name for two subtly different functions.
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