Length & Shortcircuit
- Posted by Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen <nieuwen at XS4ALL.NL> Jun 23, 1998
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atom a
a = 123
? length(a)
Why does this generate an error anyways.
I would prefer if it would return 1, since an atom operates the same as an
one element sequence!
This would make short-circuit even less usable.
I often type something like this
integer len
if atom (x) then
len = 1
else
len = length(x)
end if
I can't think of any reason to crash when I request a length, actually.
Ralf
