Re: [Scheme-reports] Multiple values in BEGIN Andre van Tonder (06 May 2011 14:18 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Multiple values in BEGIN Alaric Snell-Pym (06 May 2011 14:25 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Multiple values in BEGIN Ian Price (06 May 2011 14:34 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Multiple values in BEGIN Andre van Tonder (06 May 2011 14:46 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Multiple values in BEGIN Jussi Piitulainen (06 May 2011 14:36 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Multiple values in BEGIN John Cowan (06 May 2011 14:46 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] Multiple values in BEGIN John Cowan 06 May 2011 14:43 UTC

Andre van Tonder scripsit:

> Only non-final expressions, though?
>
> I don't like that restriction, because equivalence of the following
> two expressions should be to me a fundamental property of BEGIN:

Multiple values in the final expression of a BEGIN are legal iff the
continuation of the BEGIN accepts them, so no blanket statement can be
made.

Jussi Piitulainen scripsit:

> I would like any number of values allowed, as in R6RS. (I don't know
> why it says "usually".)

I have removed the word "usually" from the ticket.

--
John Cowan   cowan@ccil.org  http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
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dramatically overdescribed.  Still other languages are simultaneously
overdescribed and underdescribed.  Welsh pertains to the third category.
        --Alan King

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