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From: <dsmich@roadrunner.com>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>, Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Multiple values passed as single argument to procedure
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 7:17:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170613111720.XPOJR.173377.root@cdptpa-web11> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h8zk1v3v.fsf@netris.org>


---- Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> wrote: 
> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:
> >ument
> >> I'm sorry David, but _everything_ that you wrote below is incorrect.
> >
> > Well, let me try again.  It's not all that easy to understand.
> 
> You're obviously quite intelligent and knowledgeable, so it's probably
> my failure to explain it well more than anything else.  We can try again
> together.

Thanks Mark for that most excellently lucid explanation! I had vague notions before
but I have a much deeper appreciation now.

Back in the day, I used Forth a bit.  Multiple arguments and multiple return values
were pretty much the same thing. (the stack) And it was easy, because of the syntax
of the language.  Yeah, I agree, syntax is the main blocker here.

Thanks again!
  -Dale




  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-06-13 11:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-11  7:56 Multiple values passed as single argument to procedure Chris Marusich
2017-06-11  8:28 ` David Kastrup
2017-06-11 20:36 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-06-11 21:31   ` Mark H Weaver
2017-06-12  0:19   ` Chris Marusich
2017-06-12  4:25     ` Mark H Weaver
2017-06-12  8:19       ` Chris Marusich
2017-06-12  8:55         ` Neil Jerram
2017-06-12  9:48           ` Neil Jerram
2017-06-12  9:39         ` David Kastrup
2017-06-12 11:31           ` Mark H Weaver
2017-06-12 14:24             ` David Kastrup
2017-06-13  2:26               ` Mark H Weaver
2017-06-13  3:09                 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-06-13  3:45                 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-06-13 11:17                 ` dsmich [this message]
2017-06-26 11:25                   ` Alex Vong
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-09-01 19:39 Chris Marusich

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