zip() : how about braid()

[Ben Wolfson]

On 21 Jul 2000 19:33:31 GMT, aahz at netcom.com (Aahz Maruch) wrote:

>In article <3977C2A8.6D8F7586 at my.signature>,
>Greg Ewing  <see at my.signature> wrote:
>>"Jürgen Hermann" wrote:
>>> 
>>> merge() is the best yet, since it's a common (programming) term with a
>>> well-defined meaning.
>>
>>But it's a DIFFERENT meaning!
>>
>>merge([1,2,4,6,7,8],[3,5,9]) --> [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9])
>
>No, that's only when "merge" is a modifier for "sort".

I would expect merge() called on n lists to return a list consisting of all
its arguments concatenated.

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