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Re: Listable vs. Thread

  • To: mathgroup <mathgroup at yoda.physics.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Listable vs. Thread
  • From: HAY at leicester.ac.uk
  • Date: Sun, 1 NOV 92 22:28:33 GMT

Richard:

(1)
The error message in

Thread[voteTwice[cat,dog]]
Thread::normal: Normal expression expected at position 1 in Thread[c].

is because Thread evaluates its elements in the usual way so gets  c  from

voteTwice[cat,dog], and then tries to evaluate Thread[c].


(2)
Here's some prettier code to do the same as

Map[(Thread[#])&,Thread[vote[cat,dog]]]


MapThread[vote,{cat,dog}, 2]
{{c, b, c}, {b, a, c}}

Allan

Allan Hayes
hay at leicester.ac.uk





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