Re: PIZZA time again :-)

From: mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org>
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 12:51:29 +0200
Message-ID: <43197fb8$0$11072$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>

Duncan Patton wrote:
> mAsterdam wrote:

>>Duncan Patton wrote:
>>
>>>mAsterdam wrote:
>>>
>>>>I think
>>>>merge([[salami, buttonmushroom, buttonmushroom, mozarella],
>>>>       [salami, mozarella, onions]], M).
>>>>
>>>>should succeed with:
>>>>M = [salami, buttonmushroom, buttonmushroom, mozarella, onions].
>>>
>>>
>>>Sure.  But why?  A consistent rational needs to be included.
>>
>>It would be consistent with the heuristic 'don't modify input'.

>
>
> Ok, then this heuristic might still have bounding conditions that
> describe the points at which it breaks. eg, you reduce two salamis
> to one. if the second salami had come between mozarella and cheeze...
> the example above should mebbe have some more elements, anyways.

I don't like my pizza's that rich.
Anyway, along the same lines I think:

merge([[salami, buttonmushroom, mozarella],

[salami, mozarella, salami, mozarella]], M).

should give

M = [salami, buttonmushroom, mozarella, salami, mozarella] M = [salami, mozarella, salami, buttonmushroom, mozarella]

or only the first one if the order /of/ (as opposed to /in/) the list matters (see other sub-thread). Another posibility is to disallow conflicting orders in the input (e.g. salami cannot be before and after mozarella in one list). Received on Sat Sep 03 2005 - 05:51:29 CDT