Re:Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster...
by lmkg on Thursday October 08, 2020 @09:53PM
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The arguments and return value of Min and Max are strictly essential to their function. Their inclusion as top-level items in a Math package is not.
One could imagine alternate taxonomies where, e.g., the Math package is divided into Arithmetic, Trig, Comparison, and Advanced sub-packages. Or where they are placed into an Operators package insted of Math.
For example, Rust puts the Max function into the cmp (Comparison) crate of std. This associates them with comparison & equality rather than trigonometry and calculus like Java does.
This is the type of subjective decision-making that qualifies something as original and non-trivial.
One could imagine alternate taxonomies where, e.g., the Math package is divided into Arithmetic, Trig, Comparison, and Advanced sub-packages. Or where they are placed into an Operators package insted of Math.
For example, Rust puts the Max function into the cmp (Comparison) crate of std. This associates them with comparison & equality rather than trigonometry and calculus like Java does.
This is the type of subjective decision-making that qualifies something as original and non-trivial.