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1 point by akkartik 4212 days ago | link | parent

"..just alter your expectations of destructive operators.."

Yeah, I agree with this. I weakly think (without evidence) that arc's destructive ops are more functional, and it encourages a better style to not constantly make assumptions about precisely which cons cells go where.

On the other hand, a set of 'alias-friendly' functions could coexist with the existing primitives.

Hmm, I wonder if the notion of boxes would help build alias-friendly operations.