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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: list strawman
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 09:57:17 +0100
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Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:

>> The specification seems to allow it, but to me, it seems that this
>> feature is not useful in practice and just adds unnecessary
>> overhead.
>
> Which feature? The whole idea of inserting a list using an iterator?
> or just inserting a list into itself?

Just inserting a list into itself.

> What overhead? Testing for the special case? That's really small.

Implementing the special case (as required by the specification) seems
to be a bit complicated.