[plt-scheme] PLT v 4.0 discussion - values

Jakub Piotr Cłapa jpc-ml at zenburn.net
Fri Jun 6 06:07:21 EDT 2008


Neil Van Dyke wrote:
> I do long for the day that a standard backward-compatible multiple-value 
> "let" is supported widely by Scheme implementations.

Wouldn't simply checking whether car of the binding clause is a pair or 
a symbol do the trick? AFAIR only simple symbols were allowed in R5RS.

This would make multiple values more idiomatic and would be probably a 
good thing to do considering the new direction given for PLT 4.0.

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regards,
Jakub Piotr Cłapa


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