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Re: List oddity


  • Subject: Re: List oddity
  • From: "email@hidden" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 13:40:17 -0700

OK, this is starting to ring a bell. I'm just surprised it hasn't come up more often.

I'm going to file a new bug report, maybe I'm not the only one who needs reminding.

ES

On Aug 3, 2010, at 12:04pm, Paul Berkowitz wrote:

> On 8/3/10 3:47 AM, "Nigel Garvey" <email@hidden>
> wrote:
>
>> It's been like that for many years. For some reason, when you directly
>> coerce a list containing a reference in its source code, the items at
>> and after the reference don't appear in the result. You have to 'get'
>> the list first to resolve the reference(s).
>
>
> Stepping back a pace or two, it really is a pretty crummy language that
> behaves this way and isn't fixed after all these years, no? Users should not
> have to work around stuff like this, reinventing the wheel every time
> someone runs into it for the first, or hundredth, time. I doubt it's even
> written up in the documentation (ASLG), or is it?
>
> --
> Paul Berkowitz
>
>
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