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From: tmb@ai.mit.edu (Thomas M. Breuel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Subject: Re: Macros
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Date: 31 May 91 20:19:41 GMT
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In-reply-to: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au's message of 31 May 91 08:47:54 GMT

ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au:

   But old kludges may
   be allowed to hang around.  Scheme still has set-cdr! and string-set!

I always thought that compared to CommonLisp SETF and other
approaches, SET-CDR! etc.  are "the right thing (tm)".

Of course, probably they should be gotten rid of altogether and be
replaced with a separate REF type to make Scheme more functional, but
this would have such a significant impact on the language that I doubt
it can happen in anything that calls itself "Scheme".

						Thomas.