[Cook] Fwd: Function Arguments (and Algebra)

[Kyle Loveless]

1. Ok, thanks.
2. I thought I had seen this was possible, but couldn't find it(kept
searching for 'algebra'). Thanks!

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com>wrote:

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> From: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 6:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [Cook] Function Arguments (and Algebra)
> To: Kyle Loveless <kyle.p.loveless at gmail.com>
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> 1. There is likely no other way of direct passing but you can have a list
> of the names of the input lists and then do a nested loop to read them
> 2. Yes see the expr built-in function (I think it is limited to the 4
> arithmetic operations and even though each expression is infix the complete
> one is post fix)
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> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Kyle Loveless <kyle.p.loveless at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> In a function I'm writing, I want to pass in multiple lists. Is my
>> instance, one is a list of include folders and the other is a list of object
>> files.
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>> From what I can tell, I need to explicitly pass the size of each of these
>> lists so the function can know where one list ends and the other starts. Is
>> this right?
>>
>> Assuming this, I tried to use the "wordlist" function to extract the
>> correct range from the "arg" parameter, depending on the lengths given. The
>> problem I ran into with this is I need to do addition, which I realized I
>> don't know how to do in a cookbook.
>>
>> So two questions:
>> 1) If passing lists to a function, do I need to explicitly pass the
>> lengths of the lists, or is there some better way?
>> 2) Can I do numeric algebra in cookbooks? If so, how?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Kyle
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