Re: [Scheme-reports] "unspecified values"

[Alaric Snell-Pym <alaric@x>]

On 05/19/11 20:50, Emmanuel Medernach wrote:

> PS: For me the real problem is elsewhere: I really dislike to have a value
> which is an unspecified one, I prefer instead that implementations return
> nothing - as in (values) - and to let the standard legitimates some
> implementation which wants to return something (as with MIT-Scheme with set!
> to have a kind of test-and-set instruction, however I don't know of other
> examples)

Yes. As I said in WG1 discussion, I think this nonsense of an "undefined
value" (that is then thereby defined...) is daft.

(values) is the logical thing to return if you have nothing to return.

ABS

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