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Re: Redudant code for style purposes?

From	andymhancock@gmail.com
Newsgroups	comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica
Subject	Re: Redudant code for style purposes?
Date	2014-04-14 09:27 +0000
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On Sunday, April 13, 2014 5:27:33 AM UTC-4, andymh...@gmail.com wrote:
> The Mathematica Cookbook has an example:
> 
>    array = RandomReal[{0, 10}, 20]
> 
>    Table[List @@ array[[i ;; i + 1]], {i, 1, 16}]
> 
> I'm new to Mathematica, but to me, the "List @@" seems redundant.
> The statements give the same results if I remove it.  Is there a
> reason for this, either functionally or for clarity?

Murray, Bob,

Thanks for confirming that "List @@" is redundant, and for the
alternative statements for achieving the same thing.  I am not going
to echo your examples here.  Instead, I am going to assume that
Grouples is simply delayed in showing them here, and that they will
appear shortly.

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