On 8/19/22 04:36, Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen wrote:
> PS Admittedly, the issue is very subtle, which is why the fundamental
> criticism is not against a special form as introduced by SRFI 17, but
> against naming it `set!'.

Well, in other languages people do use the same assignment operator '=' or ':='
for both modifying variables (local and global) as well as modifying properties
(fields) and array elements.

So people seem to comfortable with that approach. It does not mean to be a major
source of confusion or errors. Anecdotal stories of students being confused
may be biased by the teacher not liking the idea.
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