[Chicken-users] Question about set-car! and set-cdr!

[Daniel Carrera]

Hello,

I have recently learned about set-car! and set-cdr! which eventually led me to learn about how Racket removed them years ago for the reasons given in this post:

http://blog.racket-lang.org/2007/11/getting-rid-of-set-car-and-set-cdr.html

On the other hand, Chicken certainly has set-car! and set-cdr! and I also see these functions in R7RS. I was wondering if there is a balancing opinion (maybe a post somewhere) on this matter. Presumably these functions exist because someone thought they were a good idea.

Cheers,

Daniel.

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