On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:55:14 -0700, Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Jun 21, 2006, at 5:18 PM, Moe Aboulkheir wrote: >>...wanting to know the mean of a bunch of nested lists is such a >>bizarre request that i don't think it's unreasonable to require that the >>caller flattens the arguments. > >That's basically a side-effect of allowing both mean([1,2,3]) and mean >(1,2,3) via flattenArguments.
i'm not so sure that the two character win of mean(1, 2, 3) over mean([1, 2, 3]) is worth it. debugging javascript is troublesome as it is, and returning a result for ambiguous/nonsense inputs like 1, [2, [3]] can't help, especially when it's inconsistent with the behaviour of similar functions in the same library - e.g. MochiKit.Iter.sum(1, [2, [3]]) -> ValueError: "1 is not iterable" (and confusingly, MochiKit.Iter.sum([1, [2, [3]]]) -> "12,3" in MK 1.4) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MochiKit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mochikit -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
