From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Wingo Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: expression Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:03:40 +0200 Message-ID: References: <867048CD-FB59-4D61-A944-03E4BE4D2960@raeburn.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1277384508 13240 80.91.229.12 (24 Jun 2010 13:01:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:01:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Michael Lucy , guile-devel@gnu.org To: Ken Raeburn Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 24 15:01:47 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ORm3t-0004gH-9Y for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:01:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46382 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ORm3s-0003HF-Ov for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:01:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36109 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ORm3U-0003GD-Ic for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:01:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ORm3O-0000C1-Pq for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:01:20 -0400 Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:62185 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ORm3O-0000Bx-O9 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:01:14 -0400 Original-Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85ADABE4AE; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:01:14 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=YqT75qvguUDqJXrWNAs5Rk938to=; b=KMgzTv OL9ZHOPlsqnrk9N9J7ESVuZ02E3bu0/iuPwyqGBTgW0y80PLDQ/SO5sQL+ZB65cq Bwts6i/VuG43L2CYH4N5bN0mphaki3IVAdtPL/ZujePcG7HA739mmMy6RuCDmpLC 6cNR+qyZnSfXl5sXSB+JnusQDBJxT3DXuQ+3s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=xOJmeehtIR+hbh4nGn5peXChNsv91jvz lQ4u1bu72VtQVlpoavfxSoaHM0s+dtRxLDy8Fx++oMKgRlwq7qY8WOyZ6Gokeb6D xglg77IYdwAvhzPGa+I252vbuuUBIpKNxntlgjCidOZfl9o/1Nnwyv9TJsAHrryp lw5ExSTNJbs= Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 643D9BE4AB; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:01:12 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from unquote (unknown [83.32.68.226]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AAB3DBE4A6; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:01:09 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <867048CD-FB59-4D61-A944-03E4BE4D2960@raeburn.org> (Ken Raeburn's message of "Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:55:59 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 90AF6262-7F90-11DF-88BE-9056EE7EF46B-02397024!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:10562 Archived-At: On Thu 24 Jun 2010 08:55, Ken Raeburn writes: > Hmm... here's another way, though I've no idea if RnRS lets you not have > any expressions in here: > > scheme@(guile-user)> ,c (begin) There are actually two kinds of begin: one in definition context and one in expression context. The former takes 0 or more forms, and splices those forms into the input, where the (begin ...) appears. The other takes 1 or more expressions, and evaluates those expression in order, returning the value of the last. Andy -- http://wingolog.org/