From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: primitive-load returning result of last evaluation? Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 08:05:31 -0500 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87u1q3q3xg.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> References: <87pu196tvw.fsf@alice.rhinosaur.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019480821 19342 127.0.0.1 (22 Apr 2002 13:07:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 13:07:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: a.rottmann@gmx.at, guile-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16zdX2-00051r-00 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 15:07:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16zdWj-0000UI-00; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 09:06:41 -0400 Original-Received: from dsl-209-87-109-2.constant.com ([209.87.109.2] helo=defaultvalue.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16zdVi-0000Q6-00 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 09:05:38 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.i.defaultvalue.org (raven.i.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FDFD1BF9; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 08:05:37 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by raven.i.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 88CF2B67; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 08:05:31 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: ttn@glug.org In-Reply-To: (Thien-Thi Nguyen's message of "Mon, 22 Apr 2002 00:54:09 -0700") Original-Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Errors-To: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:444 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:444 Thien-Thi Nguyen 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. I can't think of anything offhand that would make this a bad idea, but it's not functionality we could easily rescind once we provide it, and I have this nagging feeling there might be some problem I'm not thinking of... -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org Previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG=1C58 8B2C FB5E 3F64 EA5C 64AE 78FE E5FE F0CB A0AD _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel