Re: [Scheme-reports] Draft 3 Comments: Chapter 4 Aaron W. Hsu 28 Jul 2011 04:07 UTC

On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, Alex Shinn wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Aaron W. Hsu <arcfide@sacrideo.us> wrote:
>>
>> This is news to me. The semantics I expect from WHEN and UNTIL are that  they
>> return the value of the last expression in their bodies. I am aware of no
>> reason  to not do this.
>
> Put more simply, trying to use the result of `when' or `unless'
> is meaningless.  Can you provide an example of using the
> result that you wouldn't consider bad style?

I can't provide an example, but then again, I can't really definitively say that
there isn't one.  Fair enough, though I'm still leary of just forcing everything
to unspecified values here.

 	Aaron W. Hsu

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