Unfortunately, if you display a tuple! with just two elements, it will look
like a decimal value. So, the decision was made to allow smaller dimension
tuples, but always to display them with at least three values.
- jim
At 12:22 AM 2/4/00 +0900, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Here's something weird I just noticed:
>
> >> x: make tuple! [2 1]
>== 2.1.0
> >> third x
>** Script Error: Value out of range: 3.
>** Where: third x
> >> length? x
>== 2
> >> x: make tuple! []
>== 0.0.0
> >> length? x
>== 0
>
>This kind of thing will only happen from a mistake in programming,
>but debugging here would have been a lot easier if MAKE returned
>an error when I tried to make a tuple out of less than three values.
>Barring that, the resulting value shouldn't be displayed as a normal
>three-value tuple if it only has one or two values.
>
>In the program I was writing I intended to make a tuple with the third
>value zero, so it was hard to understand why a value that looked just
>like what I wanted wasn't working. If the extra zero(s) had actually been
>supplied, the program would have done what I wanted and I'd have never
>noticed my mistake, but I'd prefer to be forced to include all the values
>explicitly.
>
>Cheers,
>Eric
