Re: Modifying nested dictionary/alist type data

[Wette, Matthew R (3441)]

> On Apr 14, 2016, at 4:44 PM, Paul Morris <address@hidden> wrote:

> But if you have nested alists like this
> 
>  (define my-alist ‘((aaa . ((bbb . ((ccc . 10)))))))
> 
> and you want to change ccc, then the “set!” trick doesn’t help. (...what 
> would you “set!”?)  So what’s the best approach here for such nested data 
> structures?  Maybe I should just use nested hash maps instead?  Sorry if I’m 
> missing something obvious.

Not sure I understand this entirely, but have you looked at boxes?  Look at 
SRFI-111 in the Guile Reference.