Re: Setting the nth element of a list

[Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>]

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In article 
<b775c362-a37c-4d38-bce1-8de6922acbd3@b1g2000vbc.googlegroups.com>,
 Nordlöw <per.nordlow@gmail.com> wrote:

> How do I accomplish the same with arrays? Using aref I guess. Here is
> my mockup that doesn't yet do what I want:
> 
> (defun setnthref (n array x)
>   "Set N:th element of ARRAY to X for side effects only."
>   (set (aref array n) x))

There's already a built-in function aset that does exactly that, except 
it takes its arguments in a different order.  Why do you need your own 
function?

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