Re: Handling pathological lists

Kaitzschu wrote:
>> You have a list with two elements, and each element is a list of two
>> elements. The result of the flatten should be a list of four elements,
>> right? You get four elements, so what's the problem?
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> But I don't have sublists, I have only one list, with two elements, both
> being arbitrary strings. The fact that latter has multiple whitespace is
> not preservable. In case those are mandatory, flattening just can't be
> done without knowing nesting depth.
>

That is correct -- without you telling the flatten proc which elements
are lists and which aren't, tcl has no way of knowing. The whitespace is
preserved only as long as the string stays a string.
Received on Mon Nov 21 00:37:27 2005