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From: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
Cc: ttn@glug.org, a.rottmann@gmx.at, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: primitive-load returning result of last evaluation?
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 16:32:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hem3h12l.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0204222323270.23561-100000@marvin.ida.ing.tu-bs.de> (Dirk Herrmann's message of "Mon, 22 Apr 2002 23:27:44 +0200 (MEST)")

Dirk Herrmann <dirk@ida.ing.tu-bs.de> writes:

> I can't think of any problems, except that the standard 'load itself
> does not provide a return value.  And, implementing a load* that
> returns a value is quite simple.  However, in order to spare people
> some work (I once also needed such a load function), we should
> provide it, but, I'd rather go for a standard implementation and
> provide such extensions as optional packages.

So you'd like to see a separate function providing this feature
i.e. load-with-result and primitive-load-with-result (or whatever)?

-- 
Rob Browning
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Previously @cs.utexas.edu
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-22 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-09 10:36 primitive-load returning result of last evaluation? Andreas Rottmann
2002-04-22  7:54 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-04-22 13:05   ` Rob Browning
2002-04-22 21:27     ` Dirk Herrmann
2002-04-22 21:32       ` Rob Browning [this message]
2002-04-22 21:48         ` Dirk Herrmann
2002-04-22 23:09           ` Rob Browning
2002-04-28 15:19     ` Marius Vollmer

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