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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: changing multiple-value calls in emacs code.
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:50:26 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hc1we5u5.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87myboe7tw.fsf@freebits.de

"Tobias C. Rittweiler" <tcr@freebits.de> writes:
> more "return values" may be added in future. (So you
> cannot use `destructuring-bind' on the returned list value.)

destructuring-bind understands &rest, e.g.,

   (destructuring-bind (a b &rest) '(1 2 3 4 5) (cons a b))
     => (1 . 2)

-- 
Infancy, n. The period of our lives when, according to Wordsworth, 'Heaven
lies about us.' The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.





  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-14 10:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-13 19:42 changing multiple-value calls in emacs code Dave Goel
2009-03-13 20:57 ` Dave Goel
2009-03-14 10:07   ` Tobias C. Rittweiler
2009-03-14 10:50     ` Miles Bader [this message]
2009-03-14  0:21 ` Miles Bader

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