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Re: display property strangeness
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Nick Roberts |
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Re: display property strangeness |
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Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:07:29 +1300 |
> > Forget the substring example, dotimes works like while in foo, but it still
> > doesn't seem right.
>
> What doesn't seem right about it? It's bog-standard behavior.
>
> In your (2nd) dotimes example, "a" only occured once in the source,so
> there's really only one object "a".
>
> In the "two pushes" example, there were two "a"s in the source, so
> there are two objects "a".
>
As someone who doesn't have a background in Lisp, I would expect executing
the same statement three times to give the same result as executing three
identical statements. Perhaps its a bit like quantum mechanics, in that,
once you've passed the stage of disbelief, you can no longer see what the
problem is.
Nick
Re: display property strangeness, Richard Stallman, 2005/03/13