> - this code is in Boot and I prefer to move functionality to Spad
> - convention that empty list as a script means omited script is
>   local to Symbol, so I prefer to handle it here instead of
>   spreading it to unrelated places.

Understandable and agreed.

But my point was more that the printing routine has to cope with
whatever it gets as input. UNLESS there is a clear specification that
empty indices must not be represented by empty lists but rather by
omitting the entry completely, the printing routing must handle empty
lists equivalently to omitting that entry. In that sense we currently
have a bug.

I know we live in an imperfect world, but I'd like to make it more
perfect. I don't want to guess what a function does, but rather have a
clear specification. Otherwise there is no way to tell whether the
function behaves "correctly".

Ralf


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