Andrew Catton wrote:

> frank at crystal-objects.com wrote:
> 
>> The problem reported by this bug/fix report from last August stiil
>> exists in 3.7b, The fix proposed does prevent the inifinite loop. Is
>> this the best way to go about this?
>>
> 
> I submitted a fix for this back in the fall, but have since changed my 
> mind about the best thing to do in this situation.  The submitted fix, 
> IIRC, added the collection parameter to a copy of self when it == self. 
>  I'm now pretty convinced that an error should just be raised when the 
> parameter == self (since it is almost definitely unintentional, and if 
> you really wanted to do this for some reason you could always explicitly 
> use a copy yourself).  Does this sound sensible?
> 
> Andrew
> 
> 
> 
Yes I believe the original report I was commenting on was from you. You 
can close the original report then, as it is yours, and submit a new one 
with the change you now propose.

regards

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