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Threading 'Append'

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  • Subject: [mg62796] Threading 'Append'
  • From: "J Siehler" <jsiehler at Gmail.com>
  • Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 13:40:59 -0500 (EST)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

If I run

Thread[Append[{{1,2},{3,4},{5,6}},{a,b,c}]]

I would expect to get

{{1,2,a},{3,4,b},{5,6,c}}

but in fact I get an 'Objects of unequal length' error.

On the other hand,

Thread[foo[{{1,2},{3,4},{5,6}},{a,b,c}]]
%/.foo->Append

gives what I wanted.  Can someone explain what's going on?


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