Re: [Scheme-reports] "unspecified values" Jim Rees (19 May 2011 18:51 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] "unspecified values" Emmanuel Medernach (19 May 2011 19:50 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] "unspecified values" Per Bothner (20 May 2011 07:42 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] "unspecified values" John Cowan (20 May 2011 14:32 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] "unspecified values" Andy Wingo (20 May 2011 15:19 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] "unspecified values" John Cowan (20 May 2011 15:48 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] "unspecified values" Andy Wingo (20 May 2011 16:02 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] "unspecified values" Per Bothner (20 May 2011 16:02 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] "unspecified values" Aaron W. Hsu (20 May 2011 16:35 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] "unspecified values" Alex Shinn (20 May 2011 16:56 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] "unspecified values" Jim Rees (20 May 2011 17:02 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] "unspecified values" Andre van Tonder (20 May 2011 17:20 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] "unspecified values" John Cowan (20 May 2011 20:03 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] "unspecified values" Alaric Snell-Pym (23 May 2011 10:49 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] "unspecified values" John Cowan (23 May 2011 15:50 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] "unspecified values" Aaron W. Hsu (23 May 2011 22:50 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] "unspecified values" Alaric Snell-Pym (23 May 2011 10:05 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] "unspecified values" Andy Wingo (19 May 2011 21:42 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] "unspecified values" John Cowan 20 May 2011 14:28 UTC

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.

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