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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:

> I've done a priliminary implementation of
> http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/Containers-Lists-Unbounded.ads.html
> using SAL lists as the base.

While working on test cases for a similar list implementation, I
discovered that it isn't clear what should happen if one tries to
insert the same list into itself using the iterator-based Insert
procedure.

The specification seems to allow it, but to me, it seems that this
feature is not useful in practice and just adds unnecessary overhead.