On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 08:06:34PM +0200, Cedric Auger wrote:
> Joel Christner a écrit :
>>
>> Then throughout the course of program operation, I will be adding data
>> into this list, i.e.:
>> # varlist.contents <- a::varlist.contents;;
>> # varlist.contents <- b::varlist.contents;;
>> # varlist.contents <- c::varlist.contents;;
> I don't know if you know it, but there exist a notation: "!varlist" as  
> syntactic sugar for "varlist.contents"

Yes, but of course.

# !varlist <- a :: !varlist

won't work. There's more sugar for that:

# varlist := a :: !varlist

is equivalent to the 3 lines you originally had.


-John