Semantics of Destructive LISP

While the semantics of 'pure' lisp is well understood, the same cannot be said for the lisp that people actually use, due to the presence of so-called 'destructive operations' in programs, operations like RPLACA and RPLACD that destructively manipulate data. Such destructive operations have caused considerable difficulty in bridging the gap between theory program verification, and program transformation. In this book, Ian A. Mason aims at squaring theory with practice by first developing a theor…