On 3/10/20 1:56 PM, John Cowan wrote:
> I don't think so, because string-append isn't allowed to mutate any of its arguments, whereas string-append-linear! is (the ! needs to be added here).  I also need to rewrite the description of the string-replace! macro to match it.  Copy and paste disease.

What is wrong with:

    This macro sets place to the result of invoking (string-append place string ...).

That seems to be both descriptive and exact: You evaluate the string-append,
and then place is set to the result.
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