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From: chin@uhccux.UUCP (David Chin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Subject: set in Scheme?
Message-ID: <1822@uhccux.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 88 21:58:28 GMT
Reply-To: chin@uhccux.UUCP (David Chin)
Organization: U. of Hawaii, Manoa (Honolulu)
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Does anyone know how to do the equivalent of a Common Lisp "set" in
Scheme.  In particular, I would like to be able to pass different
symbols as arguments to a function and then set! or define them inside
the function.  Is this style of programming (global side-effects for
function calls) contrary to the Scheme philosophy?

	Thanks,
	David Chin
	David_N_Chin@Hawaii.Edu (Internet)