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From: iad@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Ivan Derzhanski)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.icon
Subject: Help/hint needed
Message-ID: <1990Nov23.205407.4570@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
Date: 23 Nov 90 20:54:07 GMT
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SOS!

I've been only using Icon for about four weeks, and I'm enjoying it
more than I can tell. However, today I ran into the following problem:

I was trying to write a procedure that takes a list of coexpressions
(its length must be allowed to vary) and suspends lists of the
corresponding values of the arguments. For example, the call

f ([create 1 to 3, create "Q" | "Z"])

would produce the result sequence

{ [1,"Q"], [1,"Z"], [2,"Q"], [2,"Z"], [3,"Q"], [3,"Z"] }.

I thought is should be easy (given the overall power of Icon), but
somehow I can't think of any way of doing it without recursion. Can
anyone give me a hint?

Thanks,

Ivan A. Derzhanski

P.S. My apologies if it turns out to be actually very simple.
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Ivan A. Derzhanski          iad@chaos.brandeis.edu
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