From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: %nil once again Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:50:19 +0100 Message-ID: <878wi5yh5w.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> References: <4A5F2F8A.5040108@domob.eu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248990654 14453 80.91.229.12 (30 Jul 2009 21:50:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:50:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Daniel Kraft , guile-devel To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 30 23:50:38 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MWdWB-0008NX-TQ for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:50:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36199 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWdWB-0001bv-AJ for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:50:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWdW8-0001bq-ED for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:50:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWdW3-0001aC-2D for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:50:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34108 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWdW2-0001a9-SH for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:50:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mail3.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.33]:43553) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MWdW1-0000OY-RI for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:50:22 -0400 Original-Received: from arudy (host86-152-99-133.range86-152.btcentralplus.com [86.152.99.133]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59DC51F6A30; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:50:20 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: from arudy.ossau.uklinux.net (arudy [127.0.0.1]) by arudy (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93B933801F; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:50:19 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: (Andy Wingo's message of "Thu\, 23 Jul 2009 22\:35\:20 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:8992 Archived-At: Andy Wingo writes: >> Other things needed would be for instance terminating rest-arguments >> by %nil rather than '() and the like. Why is that needed? I.e. Why is it important for a rest argument to be terminated with %nil instead of with () ? Neil