How innovative is Clojure as a Lisp dialect from Lisp expert's perspective?

Re:How innovative is Clojure as a Lisp dialect from Lisp exp... by fiddlerwoaroof on Monday January 07, 2019 @01:29AM (#18843232)

Scheme's conses are mutable: r7rs (and the previous standards) define set-car! and set-cdr! to mutate the parts of the conses. One of the reasons why Racket is not a Scheme is that Racket's conses are immutable.

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Re:How innovative is Clojure as a Lisp dialect from Lisp exp... by wooby on Monday January 07, 2019 @02:01AM (#18843341)

Thanks for clarifying. I remembered it as a point of contention in the Scheme community.

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