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Subject: Re: GIT version: values writing
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On 26 Jan 2011, at 21:57, Andy Wingo wrote:

>> However, quietly loosing values is inviting bugs.
>
> True.  Common Lisp does it though, FWIW.  I find it convenient.

 From what I can see, one can implement a very nice infix notation  
syntax on top of Guile, which function calls f(x_1, ..., x_k). Then a  
reification of (values x_1 ... x_k) correspond to tuples (x_1, ...,  
x_k).