How would you define a simple “min” method in obj-c

Question

I want to define a min and max methods in a Utils class.

@interface Utils

int min(int a, int b);
int max(int a, int b);

@end

But I don\'t

Answer 1

In a template file named "XXIntegerMath.h" drop this...

#import 

static inline NSInteger imax(NSInteger a, NSInteger b) {
    return  a > b ? a : b;
}

static inline NSInteger imin(NSInteger a, NSInteger b) {
    return  a < b ? a : b;
}

Then in your objective-c class ...

#import "XXIntegerMath.h"
NSInteger minValue = imin(someValue, someOtherValue);

It doesn't suffer from the problems described by Regexident.