On Sat, 03 Jun 2006 17:03:00 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote:
#> Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
#>
#> > Depends what one means by 'copy'. See below for your alternate wording.
#>
#> Please give me a reasonable definition of the unadorned word "copy"
#> which would make this statement false. (And, just to forestall one
#> possible attempt: no, I cannot agree that a ``deepcopy'' is a reasonable
#> definition of the _unadorned_ word "copy").
Actually, when *I* think about the word "copy", I have in mind what
happens with files... and I to me semantics of []*3 is more like
symbolic linking, not copying. While I, personally, understand the
sentence in question "The result of S*n or n*S is the concatenation of
n copies of S" correctly, I *do* see how it might be misunderstood by
others.
Not that I know how to express it better :-(
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