Re: coercing a list
Re: coercing a list
- Subject: Re: coercing a list
- From: Paul Skinner <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 10:18:00 -0400
on 8/30/01 5:27 AM, Emmanuel wrote:
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At 9:38 +0200 30/08/01, Michelle Steiner wrote:
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> It also accepts a single string (which, I presume, it coerces into a list
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> of one string).
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It does not coerce, I'm afraid.
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Emmanuel
That's right, TIDs keeps the value and class that you assign it. It uses
the first item of a list or a simple string, whichever it finds, as if it
were a simple string. Why is this undesirable?
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