[Python-3000] sets in P3K?

[Terry Reedy]

"Guido van Rossum" <guido at python.org> wrote in message 
news:ca471dc20604261510j6c85563el25af280d2e2b0980 at mail.gmail.com...
> Curiously, min() and max() successfully use the same overloading.
> However, these don't have the same problem, because min() or max() of
> one value makes no sense,

The expressions 'min(x)' and 'max(x)', x an ordered set member, both make 
perfect sense.  (And indeed, min([x])==max([x])==x.)  But since the result 
is simply x, the act of *writing* the expression in code (as opposed to 
expository text) does not make sense.

Thanks for the clarification on when this type of overloading can and can't 
work.

Terry Jan Reedy