Hello,
It might be useful to flatten "inside first"
aa:[[a,b], [[c]], d, [[h],[[d],s]]];
flatten(aa,-3) --> [[a,b], [[c]], d, [[h],[d,s]]]
flatten(aa,-2) --> [[a,b], [c], d, [h,d,s]]
flatten(aa,-1) --> [a,b, c, d, h,d,s]
In usual situations (homogenous levels), "map(flatten())" will do the job but maybe inefficiently.
One can also imagine some mixed cases (flatten the "deep but not too deep" objects), but it is probably too rarely useful do spend too much work on this.
Eric Reyssat
?iga Lenar?i? a ?crit :
> Hi!
>
> I've sent this email to Starvos (since he is the copyright holder of
> nset.lisp) a couple of days ago, but I haven't gotten any response.
> Therefore I'm sending this on maxima mailing list.
>
> I've modified $flatten in nset.lisp:
> --------------------------
> (defun flattenl-op (e op num)
> (mapcan #'(lambda (e)
> (cond ((or (= num 0) (mapatom e) (not (alike1 (mop e) op)))
> (list e))
> (t (flattenl-op (margs e) op (1- num)))))
> e))
>
> (defun $flatten (e &optional (num nil))
> (unless (and (not (null num)) (integerp num) (> num -1))
> (merror "flatten: Second argument must be a non-negative
> integer: ~M" num))
> (when (null num) (setf num -1))
> (cond ((or (= num 0) (specrepp e) (mapatom e)) e)
> (t (mcons-op-args (mop e) (flattenl-op (margs e) (mop e) num)))))
> -------------------------
>
> It works as before for flatten(expr). For 'flatten(expr, num)' the
> result is, that flatten 'flattens' 'num' times:
>
> %i84: aa:[[a,b], [[c]], d, [[h],[[d],s]]];
> %o84: [[a,b],[[c]],d,[[h],[[d],s]]]
>
> %i134: flatten(aa,1);
> %o134: [a,b,[c],d,[h],[[d],s]]
>
> %i135: flatten(aa,2);
> %o135: [a,b,c,d,h,[d],s]
>
> %i136: flatten(aa,3);
> %o136: [a,b,c,d,h,d,s]
> ..
>
> My lisp sucks (feel free to rewrite), I know, but what do you think
> about the functionality? This would breach the gap between table and
> create_list output, as
> flatten( table(i+j,[i,3],[j,3]) , 1) == create_list(i+j, i,1,3, j,1,3).
>
> Also such flatten functionality can come in handy in many places when
> working with lists of perhaps coordinates [x,y,z] and you don't want
> to flatten out the whole list all together...
>
> I can include this to CVS if I get developer access... Otherwise it
> would be nice if someone did it instead of me.
>
> Regards,
> Ziga Lenarcic
>
>
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