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Re: MATLAB

   > From: Morgan McGuire <morgan3d@yahoo.com>
   > 
   > Copy-on-mutate is a form of lazy evaluation.  It means that:
   > 
   > A = B
   > 
   > doesn't actually copy the values from B into A (A and B are values, not
   > pointers), instead it just remembers that A is supposed to be equal to
   > B.  This saves memory and time.

Under what circumstances should a language implementor *not* use
copy-on-mutate?  Where's the cost?

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