From: Dirk Herrmann <dirk@ida.ing.tu-bs.de>
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 23:27:44 +0200 (MEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0204222323270.23561-100000@marvin.ida.ing.tu-bs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87u1q3q3xg.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org>
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Rob Browning wrote:
> 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. 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...
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.
Best regards
Dirk Herrmann
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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 [this message]
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
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