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Re: List within a List
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Re: List within a List


  • Subject: Re: List within a List
  • From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:46:23 -0800

On 3/16/01 7:47 PM, Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden> wrote:

>> set theFirstList to {"A", "B"}
>> set theSecondList to {"B", "C"}
>> set newlist to theFirstList & {theSecondList}
>> -->{"A", "B", {"B", "C"}}
>>
>Just don't concatenate like that too many times with the same list, or you
>get memory stack (or is it heap?) problems.
>
> set end of theFirstList to theSecondList
>
>does not have these problems, although it wouldn't matter if you're just
>doing the one operation.

A lot depends on whether one needs to maintain the integrity both lists,
and generate a third list, or whether it's OK to change any of the
original lists.

--Michelle

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