[plt-scheme] boxes?

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 09:17:15AM -0500, hendrik at topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 07:49:57PM -0800, John Clements wrote:
> > 
> > Furthermore, you're also exactly right in saying that the  
> > similarities in syntax can be confusing.  Don't be suckered, though:  
> > set-car! changes a _value_, not a binding.
> > 
> > I think you will find many sympathetic ears in suggesting that set!  
> > and set-car! are unfortunately close.
> 
> Maybe that's why in List 1.5 (anyone remember that one?) they were 
> called setq and rplaca.

Ah.  Lisp 1.5, I mean, of course.

> 
> -- hendrik
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