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From: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
Cc: ttn@glug.org, a.rottmann@gmx.at, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: primitive-load returning result of last evaluation?
Date: 28 Apr 2002 17:19:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87it6bn94m.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87u1q3q3xg.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org>

Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org> writes:

> Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@giblet.glug.org> writes:
> 
> > i think this is a reasonable change, but perhaps there is a good
> > reason this hasn't been done since return value was fixed in 1996-09
> > (libguile/load.c 1.4).
> 
> I'd be hesitant to change this too until we've had a chance to
> consider the issue carefully.

Yes.  Before we make this change, we should have a way to put Guile
into a R5RS mode (maybe plus selected SRFIs).  The R5RS 'load' would
return #<unspecified>, while the normal Guile 'load' might return the
value of the last form, and take all kinds of additional arguments,
etc.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2002-04-28 15:19 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
2002-04-22 21:48         ` Dirk Herrmann
2002-04-22 23:09           ` Rob Browning
2002-04-28 15:19     ` Marius Vollmer [this message]

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