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3.12 Boxes

+Boxes in The Racket Guide introduces boxes.

A box is like a single-element vector, normally used as minimal mutable storage.

A literal or printed box starts with #&. See Reading Boxes for information on reading boxes and Printing Boxes for information on printing boxes.

(box? v)  boolean?
  v : any/c
Returns #t if v is a box, #f otherwise.

(box v)  box?
  v : any/c
Returns a new mutable box that contains v.

(box-immutable v)  (and/c box? immutable?)
  v : any/c
Returns a new immutable box that contains v.

(unbox box)  any/c
  box : box?
Returns the content of box.

For any v, (unbox (box v)) returns v.

(set-box! box v)  void?
  box : (and/c box? (not/c immutable?))
  v : any/c
Sets the content of box to v.