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What's a good suffix for a procedure that makes in-place changes to
a subsequence? For example, you might want to set the middle 3
characters of a 5-character string to some other 3-character string.
I want to say
(SET (STRING-SLICE some-string 1 3) "xyz")
except that that's all wrong; STRING-SLICE can't have a setter, since
it doesn't refer to a (single) location. Other examples might include
lists and vectors, as well as non-sequential objects that have
sharable-access components (as STRING-SLICE is to strings).
"-FILL" is already spoken for, and denotes the repetition of one element
throughout a sequence. "-OVERLAY"? "-OVERLAY!"?
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