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I have the following:

set displayList to {}
set displayList to the mainList
set beginning of displayList to "----"

Each time I run the script the "----" keeps getting added cumulatively to displayList even though displayList should be emptied out. Meanwhile mainList occurs only once. Any idea why this is happening... a bug or is it the Tao of AS?

I don’t think its possible to produce that result with the code you posted, but you could if somewhere else you have set mainList to displayList and declared mainList as a property.

For example, I can reproduce your problem like this:

property mainList : {}

set displayList to {}

set displayList to the mainList

set beginning of displayList to "----"

set mainList to displayList

mainList

References:
	>ListWillNotEmpty (From: "DigitEL @ Shaw" <email@hidden>)
	>Re: ListWillNotEmpty (From: Axel Luttgens <email@hidden>)
	>Re: ListWillNotEmpty (From: "DigitEL @ Shaw" <email@hidden>)