List append buglet...?

[Mickael Remond]

On Mon, 05 Feb 2001, Robert Virding wrote:
> 
> Yes, it is consistent, but whether it is the wanted behaviour is another
> question.  This definition of lists is the same as in Lisp and Prolog
> which were languages which strongly influenced the development Erlang.
> It would be difficult to change today as a change would have to be made
> to all list construction not just for append.  Otherwise how would you
> efficiently handle cases like:
> 
> 	List ++ [a|b]
> 
> Deep-checking the second argument is not really feasible.

Ok.
Thank you for helping us to understand the behaviour of the append function.
I did not think about linking that to the 'cons' behaviour and your answer is
convincing: this is how the system is working and not a misbehaviour.

Thank you.

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