Re: display property strangeness

[Miles Bader]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 03:03:40 +1300, Nick Roberts <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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".

[In the `store-substring' example, you're copying the contents of the
string, not the string itself, so of course object identity isn't
preserved...]

-Miles
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