Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!quintus!ok From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: intrinsic functions, math operators (was: i++, i+=1, i=i+1) Message-ID: <457@quintus.UUCP> Date: 21 Sep 88 08:14:48 GMT References: <13635@mimsy.UUCP> <3823@lanl.gov> Sender: news@quintus.UUCP Reply-To: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Inc. Lines: 8 In article <3823@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes: >Suggest a standard mathematical notation for min and max which most >potential users are familiar with - I wouldn't oppose including it. Depends on how you define "most potential users". The notation I know and like is min= /\, max= \/, which is what's normally used for lattices. (If you use the usual ordering .FALSE. < .TRUE. they even work nicely as logical operators, P/\Q = P.AND.Q .)