Re: [Scheme-reports] Proposed compromise on #68 "unspecified value(s)" Aaron W. Hsu 29 Aug 2011 18:21 UTC

On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:16:56 -0400, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
wrote:

>         If a syntax form or procedure is specified as returning an
>         undefined value, it is an error to store this value in a
>         location or attempt to output it onto a stream.

This would break many existing Schemes and I don't think it's going to
help us any. It's more invasive than multiple, unspecified values, and I
don't see it as giving us any benefits. We've already voted that all of
the built-in procedures return a single unspecified value, I don't think
we need to hammer this out further, despite the fact that I wish we had
gone with the R6RS approach of allowing unspecified valueS instead of just
a single value.

	Aaron W. Hsu

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