Re: Suggestion for strings.c

[Jost Boekemeier <jostobfe at linux dot zrz dot TU-Berlin dot DE>]

Eric Moore <moore@chem.cmu.edu> writes:

> >>>>> "Jost" == Jost Boekemeier <jostobfe@calvados.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> writes:
> 
> Jost> Hmm?  Replace the above "(set! ,place ,v)" with
> Jost> "(format-hard-disk)" if you still don't understand what I mean.
> Jost> -- I wouldn't expect (set! (s o) v) to do something like that.
> 
> scheme:
> 
> (define (car l)
>   (format-hard-disk))
> 
> (define (vector-set! vec n val)
>   (format-hard-disk))

Ehrm.  You can do what ever you want, but when I see set! I
expect that it changes a location *unconditionaly*.  And this
should even be true for objects which other people contribute.

Jost