Re: Threading objects of unequal length
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- Subject: [mg8175] Re: Threading objects of unequal length
- From: murray at math.umass.edu (Murray Eisenberg)
- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 03:06:58 -0400
- Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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C. Woll (carlw at u.washington.edu) wrote:
: I'm interested in adding variable length List. For example, I would like
: to do something like
: {a,b}+{c,d,e}+{f}
: to return
: {a+c+f,b+d,e}
I don't know whether there's a way, but I ask you: what is the
_general_ principle that you'd like followed in any such situation?
Unless you can specify such, I would speculate, handling something
like your particular case would involve ad hoc methods.
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