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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Why don't people like lisp?
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2024 23:49:28 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 03 Jul 2024 13:29:21 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
>
>> There is an infinity of combinations of arguments to max that give -∞
>> as the function result; what’s so special about distinguishing the
>> empty argument list?
> 
> max is a two-argument function, just like +.

Not in all the good languages.