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Library for use in Java components of Vespa. Shared code which do
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// Copyright Vespa.ai. Licensed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license. See LICENSE in the project root.
package com.yahoo.collections;
/**
* Utilities for {@link Comparable} classes.
*
* @author hakon
*/
public class Comparables {
/**
* Returns the least element, or {@code first} if they are equal according to
* {@link Comparable#compareTo(Object) compareTo}.
*/
public static > T min(T first, T second) {
return first.compareTo(second) <= 0 ? first : second;
}
/**
* Returns the greatest element, or {@code second} if they are equal according to
* {@link Comparable#compareTo(Object) compareTo}.
*/
public static > T max(T first, T second) {
return first.compareTo(second) <= 0 ? second : first;
}
}