[Simh] Fwd: An abandoned piece of K&R C

[Clem cole]

FYI

Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite. 

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> From: Doug McIlroy
> Date: November 3, 2017 at 11:43:46 AM PDT
> To: Steve Johnson, clemc at ccc.com
> Subject: Re: Fwd: [Simh] An abandoned piece of K&R C
> 
> Fascinating. As far as I know the min-max dream was never fulfilled.
> 
> I have never understood why the math lib contains abs but not min and max.
> Maybe the cause was that these plausible infix operators were lurking in
> the wings. Makes one wonder whether dmr ever contemplated a prefix
> operator for abs. (The obvious choice, '|', could well have been
> rejected on the grounds that it's a parsing bugaboo, like unary '-',
> but without centuries of tradition to recommend it.)
> 
> Doug
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