Proposal: add 'findLess' and variants to containers

wren ng thornton wren at freegeek.org
Sat Mar 3 09:58:28 CET 2012


On 3/2/12 7:43 PM, David Waern wrote:
> 2012/3/3 Thomas Schilling<nominolo at googlemail.com>:
>> I'm generally +1, but I still don't really like the names "lookupLess"
>> or "findLess".  It just doesn't invoke the right association.  Maybe
>> something that shows the relation to findMin/Max?  E.g., something
>> more along the lines of "lookupMaxBelow", "lookupMinAbove".
>
> +1 for lookupMaxBelow and lookupMinAbove (and lookupMaxBelowEqual /
> lookupMinAboveEqual).

If we go with min/max terminology rather than lt/le/gt/ge, might I 
suggest rather: lookupMaxNotAbove / lookupMinNotBelow ? "Below equal" 
and "above equal" is mixing metaphors.

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~wren



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