Re: [nimh-dev] More stuff

["Jon Stewart" <stew1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Here's a potential problem with lazy evaluation:
> 
> Suppose I have the sequence 'first:30 45 foo', where foo is a user-defined 
> sequence. I think that the first time you want to do anything with this 
> sequence, you'll need to expand the whole thing and sort the resulting list 
> of message numbers. That's because 45 could show up in or after 'first:30', 
> and anything could be in foo.


I've never created user-defined sequences; we should test this and see how 
mh handles it. My initial reaction, though, is that a sequence is not a 
set, so duplicates and order should be preserved. But I don't really care, 
either.


Jon
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