Re: Taking either a sequence or a list
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- Subject: [mg63097] Re: Taking either a sequence or a list
- From: bghiggins at ucdavis.edu
- Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:35:59 -0500 (EST)
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Trevor,
Use Alternatives in your pattern, and slightly modify the RHS (replace
L with {L})
Foo3[L___Integer | { L___Integer}] := StringJoin["* * * ",
ToString[Length[{
L}]], " * * * "];
Cheers,
Brian
Trevor Baca wrote:
> I somtimes SetDelay expressions twice, as in
>
> Foo[L:{___Integer}] := StringJoin["* * * ", ToString[Length[L]], " *
> * * "];
> Foo[n___Integer] := Foo[{n}];
>
> reason being that I can then equivalently call either
>
> Foo[{1, 2, 3, 4, 5}]
> Foo[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>
> and not have to worry about whether Foo[ ] takes a string or sequence
> as argument. (StringJoin[ ] works the same way, which is where I grew
> to like the idea.)
>
> Question: is there a better way to accomplish this type of setting up
> both a list-based and sequence-based interface to an expression, other
> than twice calling SetDelay explicitly (perhaps by cleverly using
> SetAttributes[ ])?
>
> Trevor.