read_list has two optional arguments -- its signature
is read_list(file_name, {start, number-to-read}). The
argument "start" determines how many objects to skip before
reading and "number-to-read" is an upper bound on how many
objects get read. If you want to use the number-to-read parameter,
you must use the start parameter. If Maxima allowed
keyword parameters, we'd have a way around this.
Barton
"Jaime E. Villate" <villate@fgnu.org>
Sent by: Jaime Villate <villate@fe.up.pt>
09/18/2003 02:46 AM
To: Barton Willis <willisb@unk.edu>
cc: maxima@www.ma.utexas.edu, lmilan@shell.core.com
Subject: Re: [Maxima] reading lists, matrices, and arrays
>
> (C8) read_list(fn,1,5);
> (D8) [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
> (C9) read_list(fn,1,5);
> (D9) [5, 6, 7, 8]
> (C10) read_list(fn,1,5);
> (D10) []
The "1" seems redundant here. How about just "read_list(fn,5)" to do