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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:55:22 -0500
From: Philip Dye <philip.dye@cs.cmu.edu>
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Subject: [9fans] acid - append to empty list
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Why does an append to a list variable with no elements not assign the
resulting list to the variable ?

   acid: l={}
   acid: append l, 1
   {0x00000001}
   acid: l
   acid: l={1}
   acid: append l, 1
   {0x00000001, 0x00000001}
   acid: l
   {0x00000001, 0x00000001}
   acid:

Thanks,
Philip Dye