If nconc is used to add things to the end of a list, use set! unless the list is known to be non-empty.

> (define empty '())
empty

> (nconc empty '(e f))
(e f)

> empty
()

> (set! empty (nconc empty '(e f)))
#[undefined]

> empty
(e f)

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