Why it’s hard for programmers to write a program to flatten a list?

Re:Why it’s hard for programmers to write a program to flatt... by mmcconnell1618 on Friday February 24, 2017 @02:13PM (#13726687)

Am I the only one who saw the string representation of the nested array and said "you could just walk it character by character and ignore the brackets and commas?"

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Re:Why it’s hard for programmers to write a program to flatt... by franciscop on Friday February 24, 2017 @02:17PM (#13726726)

That is indeed, depending on the context (you know the strings won't contain commas OR that it should be split in the commas), one way to do it in Javascript ( https://github.com/franciscop/umbrella/blob/master/src/plugi... ):

    return args.toString().split(/[\s,]+/).filter(/* ... */);

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Re:Why it’s hard for programmers to write a program to flatt... by throwaway729 on Friday February 24, 2017 @02:48PM (#13727094)

Rubric item #10: "No one thinks about generic program so that solution will work across all types."

you fail.

(I don't intend to be mean to you, I intend to be mean to the question ;-) )

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