On Wednesday, 1 July 2015 12:55:28 UTC+1, J. Pablo Fernández wrote: > > Hello Clojurists, > > Today I was surprised by the result of (flatten 1) which is '(). I was > expecting '(1) or an error. Talking in some other people in #clojure @ > clojurians.net, not everybody agrees that '(1) is a good result but that > '() is somewhat surprising. Would it be better if it raised an error when > the attribute is not sequential? >
>From an array programming / core.matrix perspective '(1) would be the most logical result. Consider the logical sequence: [[[1]]] = 3 dimensional array with elements '(1) [[1]] = 2 dimensional array with elements '(1) [1] =1 dimensional array with elements '(1) 1 = 0 dimensional array (or "scalar") with elements '(1) I am not saying that this is necessarily the best behaviour to follow for flatten, but it is an analogy worth considering. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
