Re: Bizarre semantic of vecsearch/setsearch

Ilya Zakharevich <[email protected]> Mon, 15 Jan 2024 20:53:26 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mathematics.pari.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 08:22:07PM -0800, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> contexts I have in mind¹⁾, what seems more reasonable are
> 
>   • Return the largest index with the value < argument.
>   • Return the largest index with the value ≤ argument.
>   • As above, but mark the case when the value = argument.

Hmm, it may be a bit confusing, since one of the current semantics is
close to

  □ The SMALLEST index with the value > argument

So, to clarify: using “the largest” above was just “an accident”!  I
do not suggest “changing LARGEST to SMALLEST”; what I propose is
allowing different semantics of “what happens on EQUALITY”.

Sorry for confusion,
Ilya