Max and maximum: why the difference?

[yuyichao]

This would be really confusing. It’s better to just use two functions rather than trying to guess what should the function do. See Merging `max` and `maximum` · Issue #11872 · JuliaLang/julia · GitHub

@anon94023334

max has deprecated behavior in that it will operate on collections in an element-wise order.

The deprecated behavior has been, well, deprecated so it’s irrelevant now.

@anon94023334

This is inconsistent: max(5) returns (the possibly-expected) 5, but max([1,2,3]) does not return [1,2,3], nor does max(“a”) return a.

It’s not inconsistent. The “inconsistency” is that some types are comparable and some are not.