On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 5:45 PM Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

I wonder whether someone would like to write a SRFI describing a
reference type. With SRFI 111/SRFI 195 we have box types, but we don't
have a box-like type that reuses an existing location.

Lisp has a standard term for these things of which you speak: locatives.  Zetalisp, the pre-CL of the Lisp Machine, had low-level locatives documented at <https://hanshuebner.github.io/lmman/fd-loc.xml>.  Locatives were removed from CL because they were considered not portable enough, but there is a portable package cl-locatives at <https://quickref.common-lisp.net/cl-locatives.html>.