This is a known behavior ;-). <pdhoolia>I guessed so, that's why I asked rather than saying that it is a bug. Returning a cloned definition or a cloned list everytime could be heavy on performance. I agree. By the way it would be possible only to modify the list items since "String" is itself immutable </pdhoolia>
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