Re: string is read-only

[Pierpaolo Bernardi]

Il giorno 3 agosto 2022, alle ore 13:36, Damien Mattei 
<damien.mattei@gmail.com> ha scritto:

>On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 12:59 PM Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> wrote:
>>
>> (My unverified hypothesis on why you aren't seeing an error here.)
>>
>>
>>  it would be a big change and very strange :-O if the few lines of code
>below in scheme returned an error on lists:
>but no restrictions with lists in Guile:
>scheme@(guile-user)> (define lst '(1 2 3))
>scheme@(guile-user)> (set-car! lst 7)
>scheme@(guile-user)> lst
>(7 2 3)

This is illegal scheme. The  consequences of executing it are undefined.

It's unfortunate that because of implementation limitations many schemes do not 
detect this error.

>it is interesting ,at the end of page it says too that modifying quoted
>litteral should create an error :-O

It's how all Lisps, including guile, works.  So, yes, if one is interested in 
these languages, this is interesting knowledge :)