Re: delete command weirdness

You know, it occurred to me that an implementation could copy the car
and cdr of the second cons cell into the car and cdr of the first cons
cell -- that would be cute.

Of course we are still not operating on "testing" itself, we just
happen in this case to create that illusion via mutation.

I hope this confuses things. :)


This is exactly the behavior I was asking about. I initially didn't
understand why delete wouldn't do something like this. I now know that
this sort of behavior isn't the concern of delete

However it became obfuscated in the storm of people calling me a clown
and whatnot.

-Nat
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