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   Thomas (tfb@functional.cafe)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 13:33:14 JST Thomas

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   @m455 > this feels like cheating or avoiding the whole "dont mutate globals" because you cant in elixir

   I like the technique used by the ML languages here: your variables are immutable, but if you want to make a mutable variable you instead box its value.

   Doing that silently under the hood is a classic Lisp implementation trick

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     m455 (m455@tiny.tilde.website)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 13:33:15 JST m455

     starting to wonder if i should just cheat and get all of the (def symbol value) statements from my shitty lisp implementation and then start evaluating so i dont have to think about carrying over the hashmap of functions defined by user in each tuple returned by each recursion haha. or even just store them in a file during runtime and update that file every time a new definition is made hahaha. this feels like cheating or avoiding the whole "dont mutate globals" because you cant in elixir