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== runtime values ==
"Create a function that returns the maximum value in a provided set of values, '''where the number of values isn't known until runtime'''."
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:Quickly skimming the solutions I'd say that the vast majority of the examples support lists where the values aren't known until runtime. It's just a lot easier to demonstrate using a hard-coded list. Pretty much any of the examples that have a function that takes a list (or array or whatever)--whether it's built-in or homemade--will be able to use a runtime list. They just don't because that takes lots of extra stuff like some other form of input besides hard-coding. --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 17:57, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
:I just changed the wording a little bit. I don't think it changes the intent of the task (and it's probably what they meant anyway). --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 18:02, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
:: I added an '''output''' section for the 3<sup>rd</sup> REXX example (for the run-time requirement). It does make this simple task a wee (or just a wee-wee) bit harder to read and understand the underlying program structure/logic; for one thing, you now have to show the user's input(s) (console/terminal/command line/parameters). -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 21:20, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
==greatest element ...==
Does this mean the value, which may imply a numeric value? Or can it also mean a lexicographic value? If the values are numeric, shouldn't the largest numeric value be returned? -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 15:06, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
:In OORexx the result of inheriting Comparable or Orderable and implementing CompareTo. Comparable in Ruby and Java. IComparable in .Net. Python 2 defining __eq__, __lt__ ...(Python 3 has a Comparable Class) etc.--[[User:Nigel Galloway|Nigel Galloway]] ([[User talk:Nigel Galloway|talk]]) 11:58, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
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