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<div><h1>VerticalList -- a type of visible self-initializing list that prints vertically</h1>
<div class="single"><h2>Synopsis</h2>
<ul><li><div class="list"><dl class="element"><dt class="heading">Usage: </dt><dd class="value"><div><tt>VerticalList x</tt></div>
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<li><div class="single">Inputs:<ul><li><span><tt>x</tt>, <span>a <a href="___List.html">list</a></span></span></li>
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<li><div class="single">Outputs:<ul><li><span><span>a <a href="___Vertical__List.html">vertical list</a></span></span></li>
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<div class="single"><h2>Description</h2>
<div>Many operations on lists apply to vertical lists, since it is a <a href="___Visible__List.html" title="the class of all visible lists">VisibleList</a>. The main difference is the way that it is displayed.<table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : a .. e
o1 = (a, b, c, d, e)
o1 : Sequence</pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i2 : v = VerticalList oo
o2 = {a}
{b}
{c}
{d}
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o2 : VerticalList</pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i3 : v_1
o3 = b
o3 : Symbol</pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i4 : length v
o4 = 5</pre>
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It is easy to get a normal list back for those operations which do not apply to vertical lists:<table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i5 : toList v
o5 = {a, b, c, d, e}
o5 : List</pre>
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<div class="waystouse"><h2>Functions and methods returning a vertical list :</h2>
<ul><li><span><a href="_methods.html" title="list methods">methods</a> -- list methods</span></li>
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<div class="waystouse"><h2>For the programmer</h2>
<p>The object <a href="___Vertical__List.html" title="a type of visible self-initializing list that prints vertically">VerticalList</a> is <span>a <a href="___Self__Initializing__Type.html">self initializing type</a></span>, with ancestor classes <a href="___List.html" title="the class of all lists -- {...}">List</a> < <a href="___Visible__List.html" title="the class of all visible lists">VisibleList</a> < <a href="___Basic__List.html" title="the class of all basic lists">BasicList</a> < <a href="___Thing.html" title="the class of all things">Thing</a>.</p>
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