Can someone please explain diff between `kotlin.ma...

# stdlib

[Danish Ansari]

Can someone please explain diff between kotlin.math.max() and kotlin.comparisons.maxOf() ? Both of them seem to be doing the same thing.
2 things I noticed that the later one can compare 3 values also and we can also pass our own comparator. Any other difference than these?

[Richard Gomez]

max is an alias of java.lang.Math on the JVM.
https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/blob/92d200e093c693b3c06e53a39e0b0973b84c7ec5/libraries/stdlib/jvm/src/kotlin/util/MathJVM.kt#L464

maxOf seems to just call Math.max 🤔:
https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/blob/92d200e093c693b3c06e53a39e0b0973b84c7ec5/libraries/stdlib/jvm/src/generated/_ComparisonsJvm.kt#L24

[ephemient]

max() only works on primitive numeric types, maxOf works on any Comparable (with specializations for numeric types)

[ephemient]

I see that maxOf/minOf were added in Kotlin 1.1: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-7417
not sure about max()/min() though

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

My favorite feature of maxOf is that IntelliJ won't try to auto-import the jvm function 😜