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Re: setf.scm


Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@nada.kth.se> writes:

> In fact, the point of doing a thing like
> 
>   (set! (car x) 3)
> 
> is to get better syntax.  It's supposed to be "syntactic sugar".
> If you let the cadar be a variable,
                 ^^^^^ should be caadr

> it seems to defeat the purpose to yield clearer code.

Sigh...

/mdj