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meindnoch 11 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The bloat of edge-case first libraries

clamp should actually accept anything comparable. E.g. clamp("foo", "bar", "baz") should return "baz".

Minor49er 11 months ago [–]

Why wouldn't it return "foo" instead?

meindnoch 11 months ago | [–]

Because "bar" < "baz" < "foo". The function signature is: clamp(value, min, max)

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