Re: No array update w/o setf?



Yet another Dan wrote:
Pascal Bourguignon wrote:

What's wrong with aref?


I'm starting index values from 1 instead of 0.

Because your array goes to eleven? I think this is The Real Problem. Why on earth do you want an array starting at one? I ask because I think The Great Contribution to society of computer science is the news that zero should have been the first natural number.

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