Thanks!

Tim Chase wrote on 23.11.09:
> country GB
> London
> Birmingham
> country GER
> Berlin
> Bonn
> -->
> GB London
> GB Birmingham
> GER Berlin
> GER Bonn
> 
> It finds London, then copies the "country GB" line before it, 
> deletes the word "country" and then joins "GB" and "London" to 
> make "GB London".  It then finds Birmingham which also needs to 
> copy down the previous "country" line and perform the same 
> sequence of operations.  If we had deleted it in-place, it 
> wouldn't be there to copy down.  If we had moved it instead of 
> deleting it, then we would undo the work we did to put it befor 
> London.
Oh, ok. Beautiful logic.

> Hope this helps shed some light on my thought-process :)

Unfortunately I always have to squeeze considerably to shape my brain into this
procedural(?) thinking. 

jan

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