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  8. From: jrinkel@no.email.com (Jay Rinkel)
  9. Subject: Re: Strange table behavior
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  12. Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 00:20:08 GMT
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  15. Status: RO
  16.  
  17. In article <383330B4.58AE@att.com>, Kostas Oikonomou <oikonomou@att.com> wrote:
  18. >When I run this program
  19. >
  20. >procedure main()
  21. >  local T
  22. >  T := table([])
  23. >  put(T[1], "A")
  24. >  write("*T = ", *T)
  25. >  write(T[1][1])
  26. >end
  27. >
  28. >I get
  29. >
  30. >*T = 0
  31. >A
  32. >
  33. >
  34. >Can anyone explain to me what's happening here?  Does it have to do with
  35. >T being a table of lists?
  36. >
  37. >                                Kostas
  38.  
  39. Please see the article at the following web page:  it is an article on the 
  40. Icon Programming language web site and specifically addresses this issue.  It 
  41. explains the situation much better than I can here!
  42.  
  43. http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/progcorn/pc_inl21.htm
  44.  
  45. Jay Rinkel
  46.