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4 points by im 6120 days ago | link | parent

There are two possible resolutions if the inefficiency is too much to bear:

- Have a really, really smart interpreter that can often convert nondestructive algorithms to efficient in-place ones. This seems difficult.

- Overload foo!. That is, interpret foo! as either foo! itself if it is defined, or (lambda (x . args) (= x (foo s . args))) if it doesn't.