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Re: Understanding spacing
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Understanding spacing |
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Sun, 21 Apr 2013 06:57:25 +0200 |
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Noeck <address@hidden> writes:
>>> Why basic-distance and stretchability are not overwritten by the new
>>> values?
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>> But they are.
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> Yes, concerning the effect. But the old values are still in the list.
Prepending material to a list does not affect uses of the unchanged list
elsewhere. Modifying it in place does. In order not to have to copy
the complete alist for every use, modifications are made by prepending
material to the list.
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David Kastrup