On Fri 20 May 2011 16:28, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> writes:

> Per Bothner scripsit:
>
>> In Kawa set! returns no values.  I think this makes the REPL nicer:
>> set!, define, and similar forms return no values, which prints out as
>> nothing.
>
> Every R5RS-compliant Scheme I know of does effectively the same thing:
> it returns a distinguished value which the P part of the REPL ignores.
> There was a discussion of standardizing this value, but the the WG
> decided not to.

I think that Per is saying that if `set!' returns no values, then there
is nothing for P to ignore.

Andy
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