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From: "Bill Schottstaedt" <bil@ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
To: bug-guile@gnu.org
Subject: Re: (< complex) and friends
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:59:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080918175353.M16756@ccrma.Stanford.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49dd78620809171437r739ec0cave11d0728165e6292@mail.gmail.com>

A couple similar cases:

guile> (< 2 1 "hi") 
#f

guile> (* 0 "hi")     
0

On the (apply < ...) business, I'd rather get an error than have something
broken go by just because "it is prettier".  That null list is going to trip you...






  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-09-18 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-11 21:03 (< complex) and friends Bill Schottstaedt
2008-08-12  9:18 ` Neil Jerram
2008-09-17 21:37   ` Neil Jerram
2008-09-17 21:45     ` Bill Schottstaedt
2008-09-18 13:59       ` Jon Wilson
2008-09-18 19:02       ` Andy Wingo
2008-09-18 17:59     ` Bill Schottstaedt [this message]
2008-09-19  3:07       ` Jon Wilson
2008-09-19 23:11         ` Neil Jerram
2008-09-19 13:23     ` Bill Schottstaedt
2008-09-19 23:17       ` Neil Jerram
2008-09-19 23:59       ` Jon Wilson

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