[Jprogramming] boxed + indexing

[Raul Miller]

Another approach might have been:

Box x and box y if it is nested no deeper than x.

-- 
Raul

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Henry Rich <HenryHRich at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> 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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