[mabbo]

You know what's great about that? The order of the arguments doesn't matter. So all the debate about "should it be num, min, max or min, num, max"- your solution does not care. Put them in any order you like!

You've redefined the problem from clamping a given value into picking the middle value from 3. This is a lovely way to re-interpret it.

[thaumasiotes]

Well, the order of the arguments does matter. Sorting three values requires 2.67 comparisons where clamping a value between two other values requires exactly 2. There are plenty of contexts where cleverly avoiding a problem by doing 33% more work isn't viewed as desirable.

[jonahx]

True, but I think there are more situations where minimizing the chance of programmer error, now or in the future, is more important than a micro-optimization that will never matter. All depends on context.