What does setf do that set or setq can't do?

On June 27, 2019 4:51:13 AM UTC, Bruno Franco <brunofrancosala...@gmail.com> 
wrote:
>Soo, yeah. I'm studying common lisp, and coming from picolisp setf
>confused
>me at first. The concept does not seem to appear on picolisp, and I
>wondered why its not there.
>
>The only reference I could find was this:
>https://www.mail-archive.com/picolisp@software-lab.de/msg03604.html
>it mentions that it "violates the spirit of how lisp functions evaluate
>their arguments", but no more comment is made.
>
>I hope I'm forgiven if a flame war starts, but I'm trying to understand
>what makes a good lisp.
>
>So, why is there no setf in picolisp?

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