[racket-dev] Transparent Structures in XML Library

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 3 18:23:48 EDT 2011

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Doug Williams
<m.douglas.williams at gmail.com> wrote:
> The main problem I see with transparent structures is that they are also
> inherently mutable. Some of the operation provided may well make use of that
> - for example removing whitespace. And, internally, it may be that the
> structures are created and then filled - as opposed to building the
> substructures and then creating the structure. I really haven't looked.

Transparent structures are not automatically mutable, if I understand correctly.

Robby


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