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Message: [QUOTE="Slawomir Nowaczyk, post: 1883576"] #> #> > Depends what one means by 'copy'. See below for your alternate wording. #> #> Please give me a reasonable definition of the unadorned word "copy" #> which would make this statement false. (And, just to forestall one #> possible attempt: no, I cannot agree that a ``deepcopy'' is a reasonable #> definition of the _unadorned_ word "copy"). Actually, when *I* think about the word "copy", I have in mind what happens with files... and I to me semantics of []*3 is more like symbolic linking, not copying. While I, personally, understand the sentence in question "The result of S*n or n*S is the concatenation of n copies of S" correctly, I *do* see how it might be misunderstood by others. Not that I know how to express it better :-( -- Best wishes, Slawomir Nowaczyk ( [email]Slawomir.Nowaczyk@cs.lth.se[/email] ) Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects -- Roger Zelazny [/QUOTE]