Re: [Scheme-reports] multiple values module

[John Cowan <cowan@x>]

Andy Wingo scripsit:

> There is also the approach of using no type at all and returning the
> values on the stack.

Indeed, though that can lead to very strange behavior.  For example,
if the identifier "map" is known to be bound to its R5RS definition, a
compiler can reject (map (foo)) as erroneous, but under a "return on the
stack" implementation, (foo) might return both the function and the list
to map.  I think it was Henry Baker who pointed this out.

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