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4 points by zck 5292 days ago | link | parent

So w/alias is like let, but any changes are shadowed back to where the alias came from?

So

  (let var (cons 1 2)
    (w/alias head car.var
      (= head 2))
    var)
would output

  (2 . 2)
This seems related to macros and backquoting, although I can't quite explain it.