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RE: match() (not short, he he)

• Posted by gertie at visionsix.com May 27, 2003
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On 27 May 2003, at 11:16, Al Getz wrote:

> 
> 
> Hello again Kat,
> 
> 
> >Kat wrote:
> >match("b",{{"a","b","c"}}) -- 0  
> >There you simply have it nested too deeply. And you know that.
> >
> 
> Yes i know that and you know that, but the language doesnt.

It doesn't??? When i run it, it returns zero! And it should return zero! If
your's
doesn't, you better contact Rob, your interpreter has a bug somewhere!

> It doesnt matter how deeply you nest something, the
> language has to have a way of conveying the result to the
> program that makes sense for ALL possible cases, not just
> some...

That doesn't mean it should give errors!
 
> i=match("b","abc"}}) -- ret 2

I say no. The b in "abc" looks like an atom to me, and you told match to look 
for a "b", which is a sequence.

> i=match("b",{"a","b","c"}) --ret 2

Yes.

> i=match("b",{{"a","b","c"}}) --ret 2
> i=match("b",{{{"a","b","c"}}}) --ret 2

No, and no.
 
> You really have to stick your result into some code
> to find out what really happens next, once you 
> think you have determined a better return result.

Doesn't matter what i code, Rob isn't going to put it into the official
Euphoria,
is he?

Kat