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Re: the Holy Grail of AppleScript lists
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Re: the Holy Grail of AppleScript lists


  • Subject: Re: the Holy Grail of AppleScript lists
  • From: Bill Briggs <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 14:41:15 -0400

At 1:09 PM -0500 19/03/03, Paul Skinner wrote:
set l to {"3", "a", "C", "c", "B", 2, "A", 1}
repeat 10 times
set l to l & l
end repeat

-->list of 8291 items.

Nothing strange about that. You're taking an 8 member list and doubling it 10 times. Each time through the loop the "l" is twice as long as it was before. Do the math. It's (2^10)*8

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