You could define your own cons type, like Bodil Stokke did for her
microkanren
https://github.com/bodil/microkanrens/blob/77dbdc34cde580e26765138102cbdabbfad85b9d/mk.clj#L13
If you mark its fields with ^:volatile-mutable, you can call (set! (.-a
lst) new-car) on a cons instance.
cheers
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There is no equivalent to set-car!, because conses are not mutable. Only
vars, refs, atoms, and agents are mutable, and they are simply containers
for immutable values. You could put a cons inside an atom and put a new
transformed list into the atom. (Note even among schemes set-car! is highly
As with all Clojure data structures, lists in Clojure are immutable, so
they cannot be modified in place.
Also, defs in Clojure are always global to the current namespace, no matter
where they are. For this reason, it's generally not a good idea to nest
defns.
You may want to refer to how other p
