On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 22:03 +0200, Martin Chabr wrote:

> Avoiding shared data. Why is it done that way? Who
> wants to have an array or list of identical records or
> sub-arrays or other sub-structures which are all
> updated at the same time in the same way?

Mutable shared data is very useful: caching is
an obvious example where this is precisely what you want.

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