min(NaN, 1.0) should return NaN

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Currently min(NaN, 1.0) returns 1.0. I think this is very unsafe. Is there a reason for this?

I feel strongly that min(NaN, 1.0) should return NaN instead.

The same applies to max and related functions, of course.

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https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/7866

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so it will be fixed in v6.0…