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From: jinx@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Guillermo J. Rozas)
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Subject: Re: Macros
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Date: 31 May 91 12:45:01 GMT
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In-reply-to: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au's message of 31 May 91 08:47:54 GMT

In article <6055@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:

   Yes, it's important that it be done right.  But old kludges may
   be allowed to hang around.  Scheme still has set-cdr! and string-set!

What do you mean?  Do you want a purely functional language or
something like SETF in CL (SET in T)?
I personally don't much believe in SETF, nor do I believe in
functional languages in general, so please tell me what the
alternatives are.