See what happens, after executing the code from your example, if you
modify a nested sub-block of a. That's the difference.
>> append a/3/2 99
== [4 5 99]
>> a
== [1 2 [3 [4 5 99] 6] 7 8]
>> b
== [1 2 [3 [4 5 99] 6] 7 8]
>> c
== [1 2 [3 [4 5] 6] 7 8]
>>
-jn-
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>
> As my example below shows, there does not appear to a difference in handling nested
>blocks between copy and copy/deep
>
> >> a: [ 1 2 [ 3 [ 4 5 ] 6 ] 7 8 ]
> == [1 2 [3 [4 5] 6] 7 8]
> >> b: copy a
> == [1 2 [3 [4 5] 6] 7 8]
> >> b
> == [1 2 [3 [4 5] 6] 7 8]
> >> c: copy/deep a
> == [1 2 [3 [4 5] 6] 7 8]
> >> c
> == [1 2 [3 [4 5] 6] 7 8]
> >> b
> == [1 2 [3 [4 5] 6] 7 8]
> >> a
> == [1 2 [3 [4 5] 6] 7 8]
> >>
>
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REBOL [] print to-string debase/64 decompress #{
789C0BCE0BAB4A7176CA48CAB53448740FABF474F3720BCC
B6F4F574CFC888342AC949CE74B50500E1710C0C24000000}
