Variadic functions about insect HOT 4 CLOSED

Right now, there is only a limited set of variadic functions (with arbitrary number of arguments) in Insect: maximum, minimum, mean. Those are builtin functions, but there is currently no way to define variadic functions as a user.

We are currently working on a complete rewrite of Insect, and variadic functions (OR support for lists/vectors) are definitely on the roadmap — but not yet implemented.

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How would you even supply "infinite" number of input parameters in the runtime? What are you trying to achieve?

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In case you are trying to use arbitrary (not infinity) number of inputs, then use a language that supports data structures (e.g. Octave/Python/Julia), instead of insect.

Then you can define an array R = [r1,r2,r3,.....].
and write a function which will accept the array R as an argument, and return the reciprocal of the sum of reciprocals of all the elements in R.

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Follow up ticket for Numbat: sharkdp/numbat#66

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