Re: list as string - is this a bug?
Re: list as string - is this a bug?
- Subject: Re: list as string - is this a bug?
- From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 11:24:03 -0700
On or about 9/8/05 11:08 AM, thus spake "Matt Deatherage"
<email@hidden>:
> On 9/8/05 at 11:20 AM, Matt Neuburg <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> set L to {"hoo", "ha"}
>> L as string -- "hooha"
>> set L2 to {"hoo", item 2 of L}
>> L2 as string -- "hooha"
>> -- so far so good...
>> -- but now...
>> {"hoo", item 2 of L} as string -- "hoo"
>
> I vote bug and would guess reference problem. Try this new ending:
>
> -- so far so good...
> -- but now...
> set L3 to {"hoo", item 2 of L} -- {"hoo", "ha"}
> {"hoo", item 2 of L} as string -- "hoo"
> L3 as string -- "hooha"
>
> My guess: internally, {"hoo", item 2 of L} is a list of a string and a
> reference, and the reference doesn't get converted to a string until it's
> assigned to something.
Something like this is right. You can also solve it by saying
{"hoo" (get item 2 of L)} as string -- "hooha"
This seems to confirm that the phrase "item 2 of L" is "just" a reference
until you do something with it. But I don't know whether that's a bug. m.
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