Sometimes the truth was overwritten, on other occasions new images were added to the 'mutating' mix.
Already, writers no longer produce manuscripts: early drafts of current work are electronically overwritten by later revisions.
When the argument is first evaluated, the unevaluated expression is overwritten with the computed value, thereby sharing the result and avoiding recomputation.
For example, a jump target is often overwritten with an address in the newly generated function.
It's certainly an odd play - overwritten, immature, and structurally flawed.
The final change to the signature of an abstraction is that, of course, we must now require that the code is never overwritten.
A cell may only be overwritten with a value of its assigned type.
When the value of the variable is required, the closure to which it points is evaluated, and the closure is overwritten with the resulting value.
