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* Return value of hashq-set!
@ 2011-10-18 21:40 David Kastrup
  2011-10-19 21:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
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From: David Kastrup @ 2011-10-18 21:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: guile-devel


Hi,

in guile 1.8.?, hashq-set! returns the set value.  That is quite
inconsistent with the behavior of set! (which returns SCM_UNSPECIFIED)
and undocumented as well.  A good reason for that?

-- 
David Kastrup



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* Re: Return value of hashq-set!
  2011-10-18 21:40 Return value of hashq-set! David Kastrup
@ 2011-10-19 21:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ludovic Courtès @ 2011-10-19 21:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: guile-devel

Hi,

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> skribis:

> in guile 1.8.?, hashq-set! returns the set value.  That is quite
> inconsistent with the behavior of set! (which returns SCM_UNSPECIFIED)
> and undocumented as well.  A good reason for that?

No idea.  That’s also the case in 2.0, FWIW.

What about documenting it?

Thanks,
Ludo’.




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