[Jprogramming] boxed + indexing

[Henry Rich]

Yes, by design.  It's so

1;2;3;4

produces what you want.  There you don't need to box the last element 
explicitly.  Alternatives are (, <) and ,&<  .  ; is midway between those.

Henry Rich

On 5/24/2012 1:48 AM, Steven Taylor wrote:
> it's always puzzled me why it is necessary to box the last item in order to
> make the structure at index 1 the same as that at 0
>
> ((1;(1 2)));<(2;(3 4))
>
> Is this by design?
>
> thanks,
> -Steven
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