Re: empty list

MartinLemburg@UGS wrote:
Ok - I take care, but I try to prevent unnecessary conversions
(shimmering).

If you only ever treat it as a list, it isn't going to "shimmer". It's going to get converted from a string to a list, once.

And guess what happens when you read in that proc the first time, the one with [list ....] inside it? It gets converted from a string to a list, once.

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