Re: Bug with Sequence
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg104625] Re: [mg104568] Bug with Sequence
- From: Sseziwa Mukasa <mukasa at jeol.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 03:49:47 -0500 (EST)
- References: <200911040634.BAA08584@smc.vnet.net>
On Nov 4, 2009, at 1:34 AM, dh wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> has anybody an explanation for the behavior of "Sequence"? I think
> it is
>
> an ugly bug.
>
> Consider the following that shoud succesively shorten the list t:
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>
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> t = {1, 2, 3}; j = 0;
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> While[ ++j < 4, t[[1]] = Sequence[]; Print[t]]
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You are only assigning t[[1]] at each iteration, t itself remains of
length 3.
> this returns: {2,3} three times.Dropping of the first element only
> seems
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> to work once.
>
> If you say Information[t] you get:
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> t={Sequence[],2,3}
Which is what happens when you assign Sequence[] to the first element
of t. If you want to remove elements from t use t = Rest[t].
Regards,
Ssezi
- References:
- Bug with Sequence
- From: dh <dh@metrohm.com>
- Bug with Sequence