Re: Bug with Sequence
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg104636] Re: [mg104568] Bug with Sequence
- From: DrMajorBob <btreat1 at austin.rr.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 03:51:53 -0500 (EST)
- References: <200911040634.BAA08584@smc.vnet.net>
- Reply-to: drmajorbob at yahoo.com
It's not a bug. How can setting t[[1]] be interpreted to ELIMINATE t[[1]]?
The same thing happens if we enter:
x = Sequence[];
x
Sequence[]
x is Set, it's not eliminated.
If you want to drop a term at each step, no problem:
t = {1, 2, 3}; j = 0;
While[++j < 4, t = Rest@t; Print[t]]
{2,3}
{3}
{}
t
{}
Or:
t = {1, 2, 3}; j = 0;
While[++j < 4, t = Drop[t, 1]; Print[t]]
{2,3}
{3}
{}
t
{}
What serious work are you trying to do, where this is a problem... even if
you DIDN'T have other ways to do what you really want?
Bobby
On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:34:10 -0600, dh <dh at metrohm.com> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> has anybody an explanation for the behavior of "Sequence"? I think it is
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> an ugly bug.
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> Consider the following that shoud succesively shorten the list t:
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> t = {1, 2, 3}; j = 0;
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> While[ ++j < 4, t[[1]] = Sequence[]; Print[t]]
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> this returns: {2,3} three times.Dropping of the first element only seems
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> to work once.
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> If you say Information[t] you get:
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> t={Sequence[],2,3}
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> Daniel
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- References:
- Bug with Sequence
- From: dh <dh@metrohm.com>
- Bug with Sequence