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Re: PIZZA time again :-)

From: mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org>
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 16:19:06 +0200
Message-ID: <4319b070$0$11061$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>


mAsterdam wrote:
> VC wrote:

>> mAsterdam wrote:
[snip]

>>> merge_in_its_own_right merges a list of lists into a list. It
>>>
>>>  - should not have assumptions about an
>>>    intrinsic order of the listed values.
>>>  - should preserve the order of the values
>>>    and fail if it can't.
>>  According to you specification the function should fail otherwise the 
>> function will behave as an ordinary (in the ML/Haskell sense) merge : 
>> 'if ordering(L1) == ordering(L2) merge otherwise fail'

>
> Yep.

On second thought I'm not sure.
Does 'ordering(L1) == ordering(L2)' in the ML/Haskell sense hold for L1 = [a, b, a, c]
L2 = [a, a, c]
? Received on Sat Sep 03 2005 - 09:19:06 CDT

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