Re: Bug & co

[Yannis BRES <Yannis.BRES@cma.inria.fr>]

> I think the function `reverse!' in MzScheme 103 is buggy. The behavior
> is the following : 
> > (define l '(a b c d))
> > (reverse! l)
> (d c b a)
> > l
> (a)
> ^^^  I think that '(d c b a) can be expected here, no?

     I think that the behaviour of functions with side-effects is undefined on 
pairs that are not allocated at run-time :  when l is defined by (define l '(a 
b c d)) instead of (define l (list 'a 'b 'c 'd)), pairs are built at compile-
time...

          Yannis


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