[m-dev.] list__zip/2 semantics

Fergus Henderson fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Thu Jan 20 11:41:14 AEDT 2000


On 19-Jan-2000, Ralph Becket <rbeck at microsoft.com> wrote:
> I've just had cause to use list__zip/2, but needed
> to know which of the argument lists provided the
> even numbered members (up to exhaustion of either
> list).  Unfortunately this information isn't in
> the documentation and I had to go to the
> implementation to find out.  Question: is this a
> documentation bug or is list__zip/2 supposed to
> just provide some arbitrary interleaving of two
> lists?

I'd call it a documentation bug.

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