Hi Giuseppe,

There *is* good documentation on copying series, here:
http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-6.html#section-5

See especially section 5.2 Deep Copies.

Anton.

> > Your assumption that SITE is a copy is incorrect.
> > Each iteration through the FOREACH body block,
> > SITE is set to a new url. Essentially, SITE is a
> > "pointer" to the original url. There is no copying
> > happening.
> 
> SITE points to a subseries whose first element is the first char of the
> element of the series and whose tail is set to to the last charc.
> 
> > Therefore, INSERT, REMOVE and APPEND are all working
> > on the original urls.
> 
> And on the original series which is enlarged according.
> 
> This is written nowhere in the manual and you should read it plus some
> articles plus you must read some code to understand they are not 
> copies but
> pointers. Ok, we already know this: documentation needs to be revised.
> 
> Giuseppe Chillemi

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