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Re: generalized set!


Michael Livshin <mlivshin@bigfoot.com> writes:

> 1. why the obvious candidates like `vector-ref', `car' etc.  are not
> `procedure-with-setter's?

Because with the current level of memoization, a procedure-with-setter
car can't be simplified to the primitive car, meaning that the
evaluator would be slowed down.

We can do such things when Go..., I mean when the new module system
has arrived.

Message being: Wait...

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