Re: Combining @ and [*] in one function call?

Chris,

What you need is an fmap function but I don't see any. The best I can
suggest would be something like this...

map(color_defs,Function.splice_call,GTK2.GdkColor);

Best Regards,
  Ralph Ritoch




On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Chris Angelico <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Ralph Ritoch <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Have you tried using parenthesis to control the order of operations?
> >
> >  colors = GTK2.GdkColor(@(color_defs[*]));
> >
> > This seems to work for me.
>
> Yes, tried that. It does the exact same thing as not having the
> parens. It does appear to "work" in the sense that it will be valid
> code. It just isn't doing what I expect of it; and the most obvious
> evidence of that is that the data type of the result is "object"
> rather than "array(object)". (And if I do this in a context where a
> 'mixed' result is accepted, I then get "[*] not supported here".)
>
> I'm doing this on Pike 8.0.1, built from a fairly recent trunk (plus a
> few patches that haven't yet been accepted).
>
> ChrisA
>
>