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Simon Cozens  
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 More options Jan 6 2004, 4:49 pm
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From: si...@simon-cozens.org (Simon Cozens)
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 21:31:37 +0000
Local: Tues, Jan 6 2004 4:31 pm
Subject: Re: References to hash elements?
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Jeff Clites:

> But here what I'm copying is the _contents_ of the hash slot.

True, but irrelevant. :)

> And here I'm not making a copy, but also the thing I'm taking a
> reference to is not the same thing I copied above. Here, it's a
> reference to a hash slot.

No, it isn't. It's a reference to a PMC. The fact that that PMC happens
to be pointed to by a hash key is incidental. It's still just another PMC.
No special case at all.

--
emacs: Terminal type "emacs" is not powerful enough to run Emacs.


 
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