Re: Comparing lists

Hi,

Thanks for that - at least now I know to take it into consideration.

|list| already returns the length of the list (according to the
documentation - i haven't had chance to try it out yet) so that shouldn't
need to be added. Sorry but I don't have the quote below as I deleted the
email :(

Cheers,

Will

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jon klein" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 1:03 AM
Subject: Re: [breve] Comparing lists


>
> On Feb 1, 2004, at 4:00 PM, Will Davis wrote:
>
> > I've got around this by checking the items in the list for a z
> > component, but I'd still like to be able to work out why it happens.
> > Does list equality work differently?
>
> Ah, I just looked at the code for testing list equality and see that
> it's not really doing what one would probably expect.  Right now, the
> lists are getting coerced to integers -- in other words, it's comparing
> the lengths of the lists, not the lists themselves!
>
> I will make sure this gets fixed for the next version.  In the
> meantime, I would suggest that you stick with your workaround.  You
> should compare the individual elements of the list instead of trying to
> compare the entire list.
>
> - jon klein
>
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