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Re: [Scheme-reports] Proposed compromise on #68 "unspecified value(s)"



On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, John Cowan wrote:

>> This would break many existing Schemes and I don't think it's going to
>> help us any. It's more invasive than multiple, unspecified values, and I
>> don't see it as giving us any benefits. We've already voted that all of
>> the built-in procedures return a single unspecified value, I don't think
>> we need to hammer this out further, despite the fact that I wish we had
>> gone with the R6RS approach of allowing unspecified values instead of just
>> a single value.

I agree.  It feels like a good Schemely way of what is called "deprecating" in 
other language standards.

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