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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>It can be really quite useful to clean up some code, especially if you write a lot of these long statements. I also use it a lot for the code-intensive parts i reuse between experiments, such as making random noise masks with some canvas-code because, quite often, I am really just too lazy to look up exactly how one goes about doing these things.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Mich<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> e-prime@googlegroups.com [mailto:e-prime@googlegroups.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Christopher Chatham<br><b>Sent:</b> 10 July 2012 16:02<br><b>To:</b> e-prime@googlegroups.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Is there no min() function in ebasic?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Yes, rock on! <br><br>I wasn't aware that we could implement functions of this kind. Thank you very much.<br>-Chris<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Michiel Sovijarvi-Spape <<a href="mailto:mspape@cognitology.eu" target="_blank">mspape@cognitology.eu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Like you, I thought, that is pretty odd, but you seem correct anyway. Nonetheless, there's an argument to be made against packing all sorts of superfluous operations in a programming language (like VBA), if you're not using them and are easily able to add them yourself. So, just add to your user script:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:blue'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:blue'>Function</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> min(inx <span style='color:blue'>As</span> <span style='color:blue'>Variant</span>, iny <span style='color:blue'>As</span> <span style='color:blue'>Variant</span>) <span style='color:blue'>As</span> <span style='color:blue'>Variant</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> <span style='color:blue'>If</span> inx < iny <span style='color:blue'>Then</span> min = inx <span style='color:blue'>Else</span> min = iny </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:blue'>End</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> <span style='color:blue'>Function</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Now, writing </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>TextDisplay1.Text = min(5,3) </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>for example, will show "3". Rock on, no?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Best,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Mich</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:e-prime@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">e-prime@googlegroups.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:e-prime@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">e-prime@googlegroups.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Chris<br><b>Sent:</b> 10 July 2012 13:57<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:e-prime@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">e-prime@googlegroups.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Is there no min() function in ebasic?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I realize I must be overlooking something, but I cannot find the minimum function. If I just want the smaller of two variables, do I really have to construct an if statement for that? <br><br>I realize that I can also put them in a summation object and use summation.min; or I could put them in an array and sort it; but surely the min() function must exist, right? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>-- <br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "E-Prime" group.<br>To view this discussion on the web visit <a href="https://groups.google.com/d/msg/e-prime/-/vVI7xbobw3YJ" target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/d/msg/e-prime/-/vVI7xbobw3YJ</a>.<br>To post to this group, send email to <a href="mailto:e-prime@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">e-prime@googlegroups.com</a>.<br>To unsubscribe from this group, send email to <a href="mailto:e-prime+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">e-prime+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a>.<br>For more options, visit this group at <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/e-prime?hl=en" target="_blank">http://groups.google.com/group/e-prime?hl=en</a>.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "E-Prime" group.<br>To post to this group, send email to <a href="mailto:e-prime@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">e-prime@googlegroups.com</a>.<br>To unsubscribe from this group, send email to <a href="mailto:e-prime%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">e-prime+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a>.<br>For more options, visit this group at <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/e-prime?hl=en" target="_blank">http://groups.google.com/group/e-prime?hl=en</a>.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>-- <br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "E-Prime" group.<br>To post to this group, send email to <a href="mailto:e-prime@googlegroups.com">e-prime@googlegroups.com</a>.<br>To unsubscribe from this group, send email to <a href="mailto:e-prime+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com">e-prime+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a>.<br>For more options, visit this group at <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/e-prime?hl=en">http://groups.google.com/group/e-prime?hl=en</a>.<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>
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