I support PEP 326

[Paul Prescod]

Andrew Koenig wrote:

>>I suppose you could special-case min() and max() to return the
>>appropriate singletons if called with no arguments.
>>
>>There's something very nice about that.  There's also something very
>>ugly about it.  I'm having a hard time deciding which is stronger :-)
> 
> 
> I'm afraid it's not right, because calling min() with no arguments should
> return Max and calling max() with no arguments should return Min.
> 
> This behavior is correct because it preserves the intuitive property that if
> s1 and s2 are (possibly empty) sequences, min(min(s1),min(s2)) should be
> equal to min(s1+s2), and similarly for max.  If you like, Max is the
> identity element for min and Min is the identity element for max.

Calling min with no arguments need not be the same as calling it with an 
empty sequence argument. That is not necessarily an argument for making 
the empty function call return something arguably strange...

  Paul Prescod