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>>>>> "Per" == Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com> writes: Per> In earlier discussions on this topic, we talked about a generalized Per> set! form. Now, suddenly everyone is talking about setf!. Why Per> this sudden poorly-motivated name-change? I am afraid this is my doing. My motivation for suggesting this to Mikael (in the course of porting STk's tiny-clos implementation) was that I had a bad feeling about extending a standard form in a non-compatible way. If we must extend guile, then lets us leave the R4RS parts as they are, I thought, with the feeling that it is easier for somebody moving code out of guile to write a fresh new macro rather than having to go through the hoops to redefine an existing one. Perhaps this is just me working in paranoia mode again. STk also extends set!. ---------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Christian Lynbech | Telebit Communications A/S Fax: +45 8628 8186 | Fabrik 11, DK-8260 Viby J Phone: +45 8628 8177 + 28 | email: chl@tbit.dk --- URL: http://www.telebit.dk ---------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - petonic@hal.com (Michael A. Petonic)