I see your point. Option b does suggest that you can read ahead in a
"blocked" list and get undef's. If I had to choose just one, I think
I'd opt for d, but having two zip's one acting like c and one like d
might be useful. Then, of course, my first thought was wrong. This one
may well be, too.

--- Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hey,
> I'd just like to say that I find B a bit misleading because you
> couldn't
> tell that the first list ended, it could just have undef's at the
> end. I
> like a because it doesn't add any data that wasn't there, of course
> that
> could be a reason to dislike it too. On the other hand c makes a good
> option
> when you want to work with infinite lists. Is this something that
> could be
> modified on per use basis and we just choose one now as the default
> "they
> didn't request a specific one so use this one).
> 
> After all that i think I agree on C specificaly because you can
> provide a
> good code use of it and it doesn't add any data that wasn't there
> before. I
> don't think it should ever lean towards (b) but them I bet someone
> else will
> have an equaly good use of that. ;) So in the end I think some way of
> chooseing would be good, with one option picked as standard.
> 
> --
> Eric Hodges
> 



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