Plan to address "Attack of the killer features" parameter reference optimization aliasing issue just dropped!

The fun thing about creating a lisp interpreter is you get to experiment with things like this extremely easily. I did this some years ago. If I recall, I enforced that all functions were pure unless they were bound to a name that ended with an !. This sort of broke my closures implementation but was entertaining for a while.

I highly recommend this for an interesting pastime - and I suppose a source of PL research if you’re into that.

(A lisp interpreter is super easy to make by the way, it’s nothing like a compiler.)

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