nemesis wrote:
> Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>>   I asked because 'let' sounded to me like an assignment, which is not
>>> functional.
>> I'm pretty sure you're right about Lisp. But in Haskell, it's not an
>> assignment - although it does look like one.
> 
> In Scheme and Lisp, let introduces new lexical scoped bindings for values, just
> like in Haskell.  Except someone can use set! on them and break all referential
> transparency apart...

Ah, OK.

IIRC there's also a bunch of functions for modifying lists in-place that 
Haskell also doesn't have...

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