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Finding the size of an Icon list

The unary ``*'' operator, applied to a list, returns the number of elements in the list. For example, this program fragment should print the number 23:

    foo  :=  list ( 23 );
    write ( * foo );

    every  i := 1 to ( * L )  do
      write ( L[i] );