NAME

Number::Extreme - Helper for keeping track of extreme values of objects

SYNOPSIS

use Number::Extreme;

# a bunch of objects with the "high" attribute.
my $id = 0;
my @objects = map { { id => $id++, high => $_ } } shuffle (1..100);

# create a highest-high tracker, which extracts "high" from given objects
my $highest_high = Number::Extreme->max(sub { $_->{high} });

# test the values
$highest_high->test($_) for @objects;

# now you have the highest high
warn $highest_high;

# and the object of that high
warn $highest_high->current->{id};

DESCRIPTION

Number::Extreme provides simple utility for a common task: tracking highest or lowest value of an attribute of objects, while keeping track of which object is of the extreme value.

METHODS

$class->max($extractor)

$class->min($extractor)

Helper constructors for creating max/min tracker. $extractor takes $_ as the object to be tested, and returns the attribute to be compared.

$class->amax($array)

$class->amin($array)

Helper constructors for tracking max/min values of an arrayref. test() should be called with the array index.

$obj->test($o)

Update the tracker with new incoming object.

AUTHOR

Chia-liang Kao <clkao@clkao.org>

LICENSE

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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