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Re: References/locations
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Clinton Ebadi |
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Re: References/locations |
Date: |
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:55:45 -0400 |
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"Maciek Godek" <address@hidden> writes:
> I've been thinking of implementing this "location" stuff
> as a smob, but you've got the point that it is (probably)
> impossible to implement the location system without
> redefining set! and define.
You may want to read a few documents on functional programming to see
why your locations concept is not good. There are a number of
additional issues as well: one that comes to mind is the interaction
of the garbage collector with pointers into the middle of a vector.
What is so wrong with forms like `(set! (vector-ref foo index) ...)'?
It's generally bad practice to go around destructively modifying data
structures anyway.
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