catrahpete

OK, so my error is in assuming that in gen-combine items expressed as a ratio are 'just' numbers, but they are treated as omn lengths. The behaviour with floats is as I had expected. (gen-combine '(1/2 1/4) '(0.333 0.2)) --> ((1/2 0.333) (1/4 0.2))

Hi, I've discovered that if I run the following code: (list (gen-combine '(1/2 1/4) '(1/8 1/16)) (gen-combine '(1/2 1/3) '(1/4 1/5))) the result is: (((1/2 1/8) (1/4 1/16)) ((1/2 1/4) (1/3 1/3 1/3 1/5 1/5 1/5 1/5 1/5))) whilst I was expecting (and the documentation suggests should be the result): (((1/2 1/8) (1/4 1/16)) ((1/2 1/4) (1/3 1/5))) In general any input that is not of the form 1/2^n (n>1) generates a sequence of the input elements rather than a single instance. Am I misunderstanding the function or is this a bug? Many thanks for any assistance. Pete