Sebastian Bensusan <sbe...@gmail.com> writes:
As a side notes, in Lisp it is convention to append "!" to those
functions that have side-effects (i.e. mutate state).
Well, not in /all/ Lisps. :-) It is the convention in Scheme[1],
for example, but not in e.g. Emacs Lisp or Common Lisp. In the
latter, for example, c.f. 'nconc', which modifies lists in-place.
Alexis.
[1] Modulo debates about whether or not Scheme is 'really' a Lisp.
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