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Fix for Mantis bug 2098
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ganelson committed Apr 6, 2022
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Expand Up @@ -14530,9 +14530,9 @@ A special word about the constant list "{ }". This means the list with no entrie

then Inform will produce a problem message, because it cannot tell what sort of list M will be: a list of numbers, or texts, or times, or...? On the other hand, writing

let M be { };
now M is { };

is fine provided that M already exists, and then does the obvious thing - empties M. Similarly, a table column in which every entry is "{ }" produces a problem message unless the heading for that column spells out the kind of value stored within it: for instance, "ingredients (list of texts)".
is fine if M already exists, and then does the obvious thing - empties M. Similarly, a table column in which every entry is "{ }" produces a problem message unless the heading for that column spells out the kind of value stored within it: for instance, "ingredients (list of texts)".

All of this is a notation for constant lists only, not some sort of gluing-things-together operation. So this, for instance:

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