Arc Forum | Suppose you write from the repl: (def car (x) (my-bizzare-computation)) Now yo...

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5 points by stefano 5962 days ago | link | parent

Suppose you write from the repl:

  (def car (x) (my-bizzare-computation))

Now you would expect every function that references car to use your new version. If you can't trust basic functions such as car, data-flow analysis becomes very hard. I'm not an expert and I have only a vague idea of what data-flow analysis is, but I think this could be the problem. This is only what I think, so I could be completely wrong.