Haskell like (c:cs) syntax

[Steve Holden]

Istvan Albert wrote:
> On Aug 29, 8:12 am, Ricardo Aráoz <ricar... at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>>> Caution : L[0] and L[1:] are COPIES of the head and tail of the list.
> 
>> Sorry, should have written RETURN copies instead of ARE copies.
> 
> L[0] does not return a copy, it does what is says, returns the object
> stored at index 0.
> 
Well, if we're going to get picky it actually returns a reference to the 
object referenced by the list item indexed by 0. What was your point?

regards
  Steve
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