Re: [RFC] Add clamp function

2025-08-22 at 22:29, Morgan <Weedpacket@varteg.nz> wrote: > On 2025-08-23 05:29, Kyle Katarn wrote: > > > > Also from my point of view, min($max, max($min, $value)) has a counter- > > intuitive reading when used to clamp a value. > > Well, that's trivial to deal with: > > min(max($min, $value), $max)); > It's not just about the order of parameters, it's still not intuitive to call max() with $min and min() with $max, you still have to think about what it does step by step to make sense out of it, while clamp($value, min: $min, $max) or clamp(min: $min, value: $value, max: $max) will provide a syntax that immediately make sense for next reader. Like the author of the RFC v1 also mentioned, min(max()) is inefficient (see the inner complexity of those functions).