bug#81581: [PATCH 1/1] Add a LESSP argument to 'seq-min' and 'seq-max'

Philip Kaludercic [09/Aug  4:29pm GMT] wrote:
>> Code looks good, interesting approach with the eval-when-compile
>> (I would have used a cl-loop since it doesn't seem like it's truly a
>> reduction, but what you have is fine).
>
> Why isn't this a reduction?

Just a defeasible aesthetic intuition.

> Sean Whitton <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Sean Whitton [09/Aug 11:50am +01] wrote:
>>> Code looks good, interesting approach with the eval-when-compile
>>> (I would have used a cl-loop since it doesn't seem like it's truly a
>>> reduction, but what you have is fine).
>>
>> Well, a while loop, probably, given seq.el is preloaded.
>
> Hmm, but that would amount to just manually looping over the sequence
> (seq-length seq) many times and comparing the current best element with
> that in (seq-elt seq i)?

Yes.

-- 
Sean Whitton