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Re: [Scheme-reports] Multiple values in BEGIN



On 05/06/11 15:18, Andre van Tonder wrote:

> 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:
>
>    (begin
>      (begin
>        exp1)
>      exp2))
>
> and
>
>    (begin
>      exp1
>      exp2)
>
> But with ths stated restriction, they are not equivalent.

Indeed!

I would expect any expression in a BEGIN to be able to return any number
of values, and the values of the final one are the values of the entire
BEGIN.

Is that too simple? :-)

>
> Andre
>

ABS

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