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>>>>> "Russ" == Russ McManus <russell.mcmanus@gs.com> writes:
Russ> Thanks for summarizing the CL view; you did it better than I
Russ> was able. Personally I view setf as a programmer
Russ> convenience, an enforced consistent naming scheme. In
Russ> practice, I find it a pleasure to use, and I wish Scheme had
Russ> it, or that it was a standard add-on.
You're welcome. As for the convenience angle, I totally agree; I'd
actually settle for set-*! or *-set! if they were standardized, but
they're not and probably won't.
Now that I think about it, there is a good reason to prefer setf to
set-*!; it is far easier for a macro (particularly define-syntax
macros) to generate (setf (some-arbitrary-form ...) ...) than to
somehow symbol munge set-some-arbitrary-form! into something
define-syntax will accept. This isn't as much of an issue for a CL
style defmacro, but a CL style defmacro is ugly in Scheme for various
reasons.
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Graham Hughes <ghughes@cs.ucsb.edu>
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