[Swift-devel] Re: Swift Error! Round 2

[Ben Clifford]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Ben Clifford wrote:

> > If this causes the function to hang, I'd like to try to isolate this into a
> > simple test case.
> > 
> > Is the reason obvious to you?

Here is a program that does the same:

  type file;

  file a <"foo">;
  file b <"bar">;

  a = b;

> You've got stuff put in one place - a file, mapped by the mapper assigned 
> to the feature variable.
> 
> Then you use = to 'assign' that to another place - a different file, 
> mapped by the mapper assigned to the array.
> 
> What does that mean? make a copy of the file? Its not defined in the 
> present implementation.

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