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Re: [Scheme-reports] Post-plebiscite issue #3: structure-sharing for mapping




On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 2:11 AM, John Cowan <cowan@x> wrote:
Per Bothner scripsit:

> "Newly allocated list" means "list consisting of newly allocated pairs".
> That is how I have always interpreted it, and nothing else makes sense, IMO.

Quite so.  But "newly allocated empty vector" might mean what it literally
says, or might mean the system's singleton empty vector.  The semantics
permits both interpretations.


The wording on list-copy should be updated to include the behavior of an empty list.

Cheers

leppie
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