Re: Flattening Nested Lists
Re: Flattening Nested Lists
- Subject: Re: Flattening Nested Lists
- From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:40:17 -0800
On 2009-01-26, at 05:56:57, Mark J. Reed wrote:
You're correct. A better plan is to use a parameter for output.
Why do you need either one? Why not just have the handler return the
flattened list? This seems to work fine:
on flatten(aList)
if class of aList is not list then
return { aList }
else if length of aList is 0 then
return aList
else
return flatten(first item of aList) & flatten(rest of aList)
end
end flatten
flatten({{1,2},3,{4,{5,{6,7},8}}})
Whatever, the problem is solved.
It's six of one, half dozen of the other to me.
For instance, the example above has an extra recursive call so we'd
have to whip out $ time osascript flatten.scpt and run it a few
thousand times to find the optimal solution.
Philip Aker
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