Re: Handling pathological lists
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Re: Handling pathological lists

From: keithv <kvetter@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Oct 29 2005 - 15:47:13 CEST




keithv wrote:


> Boiling down a complex problem to a simple problem,


> I need to find the llength of the first item of a


> list. Simple right?



Okay, I guess I agree that technically it isn't a


pathological list but instead using a string where


a list was expected.



But let me restate the problem: write a routine that


flattens a list, e.g.


  where: [list [list a b] c [list d e [list f g]]]


  becomes: {a b c d e}



Keith


Received on Mon Nov 21 00:37:00 2005