Re: Creating a recursive function which returns a sequence
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- Subject: [mg128498] Re: Creating a recursive function which returns a sequence
- From: Sseziwa Mukasa <mukasa at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 01:42:54 -0400 (EDT)
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Flatten does what you need. Also there's no need to use Return:
(Debug) In[5]:= f[n_] := Module[{}, If[n < 0, {},
Flatten[{g[n], f[n - 1]}]]]
(Debug) In[6]:= f[2]
(Debug) Out[6]= {g[2], g[1], g[0]}
Sequence makes no sense outside of a function, so you can just do Sequence@@f[n] when you want to insert the result as the argument of another function.
Regards,
Sseziwa
On Oct 24, 2012, at 3:32 AM, Wei-Hsun Lin wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I would like to create a recursive function of which the returning
> value is a sequence. For example,
>
> f[n_]:=Module[{},
> If[n<0,Return[Sequence[]]];
> Sequence[g[n],f[n-1]]
> ]
>
> The above code doesn't work because the Sequence function was
> evaluated before it's returned.
> Could anyone please advise me as to what's is the usual way to achieve
> this? Thank you very much!
>
> The result I want is
>
> f[2]
> =Sequence[g[2],f[1]]
> =Sequence[g[2],Sequence[g[1],f[0]]]
> =Sequence[g[2],g[1],f[0]]
> =Sequence[g[2],g[1],Sequence[g[0],f[-1]]]
> =Sequence[g[2],g[1],g[0],f[-1]]
> =Sequence[g[2],g[1],g[0],Sequence[]]
> =Sequence[g[2],g[1],g[0]]
>
> Best regards,
> Wei-Hsun
>
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- Creating a recursive function which returns a sequence
- From: Wei-Hsun Lin <wei.xun.lin@gmail.com>
- Creating a recursive function which returns a sequence