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Re: Writing HG LISP in Python, kind of

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Madhu <enometh@meer.net> writes:

>>
>> That’s an implementation issue, which is irrelevant to the way the
>> language works. Python lets you write
>>
>>     a, b = b, a
>>
>> as an easy way to swap the values of variables, for example.
>
> What does this non-sequitur have to do with bindings (either
> destructuring or multiple values)?
>
> Mutation of bindings is handled in lisp through generalized references
> ("places") in a uniform way.
>
> (let ((a 10) (b 20)) (rotatef a b) (list a b))
>
> https://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/m_shiftf.htm
> https://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/05_a.htm
>

Did you mean to reference the documentation for ROTATEF?

‘m_shiftf.htm’ is the page that documents the macro SHIFTF.

‘m_rotatef.htm’ is the page that documents the macro ROTATEF.

At the www.ai.mit.edu website, they have expanded the ‘m_’
to ‘mac_’ to provide a longer hint that a page documents a
macro:

http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/doc/CommonLISP/HyperSpec/Body/mac_rotatef.html

-- 
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- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parliament of Birds.

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  Re: Writing HG LISP in Python, kind of Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> - 2025-09-23 20:28 +0100
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