On Monday, November 05, 2012 18:36:53 H. S. Teoh wrote: > Hmm. Another idea just occurred to me. The basic problem here is that we > are conflating two kinds of values, transient and persistent, under a > single name .front. What if we explicitly name them? Say, .copyFront for > the non-transient value and .refFront for the transient value (the > names are unimportant right now, let's consider the semantics of it).
I thought of this a couple days ago but threw it away fairly quickly, because it breaks _everything_. And it definitely affects all ranges for the sake of a few. - Jonathan M Davis
