From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>,
philip.dye@cs.cmu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] acid - append to empty list
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:16:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a0701111116j641d955p27c226270798ff0d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45A67A0A.6030509@cs.cmu.edu>
> Why does an append to a list variable with no elements not assign the
> resulting list to the variable ?
It is a failure of vision on Phil's part.
It is difficult to fix but easy to work around:
always write l = append l, 1;
Russ
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2007-01-11 17:55 Philip Dye
2007-01-11 19:16 ` Russ Cox [this message]
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