On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:27:16 -0500 (EST) Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
CD> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Tolkin, Steve wrote: >> I want to reconstruct the underlying list. In other words the order of >> the elements agrees in all the lists, but there is no sort condition. ... CD> Out of curiosity, does it have to handle something like this? ... CD> That is, "outliers", I guess. ... CD> That is, "loops", I guess. CD> Seems like edge cases like that could make this non-determistic. I think the requirements are too vague, as your list of exceptions shows. Steve should either specify the narrow cases for which he cares (he didn't say the 123/1435 example he posted was the only necessary one) or should give the general behavior desired for merging of any list A1..An with another list B1..Bm It sounds like a fun problem, but as specified we're all only guessing what it is. Ted _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
