[Cook] Function Arguments (and Algebra)

[Kyle Loveless]

Ok, makes sense.

Thanks!

On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 1:05 AM, Pendergraft, Jerry <JPendergraft at sjm.com>wrote:

> Essentially you can pass lists by name (think reference) rather than
> content.
> foo = one two three;
> bar = a b c;
>
> 1) [myfunc foo bar];
> vs:
> 2) [myfunc [foo] [bar]];
>
> In 1 you would write myfunc to expand the lists ala:
>  dosomething with [@1];
>  somethingelse with [@2];
>
> in 2) you get content of both lists concatenated.
> Sounds like you want to use #1
>
> On 14 Oct, 2011, at 16:56 , Kyle Loveless wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > 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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