From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Multiple values passed as single argument to procedure Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 7:17:19 -0400 Message-ID: <20170613111720.XPOJR.173377.root@cdptpa-web11> References: <87h8zk1v3v.fsf@netris.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1497352683 1871 195.159.176.226 (13 Jun 2017 11:18:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 11:18:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org To: David Kastrup , Mark H Weaver Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 13 13:17:54 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dKjpa-0008Hg-DV for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 13:17:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42520 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKjpd-0005xN-VF for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 07:17:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48892) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKjp7-0005w5-SG for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 07:17:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKjp4-0007Qk-6s for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 07:17:25 -0400 Original-Received: from cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com ([107.14.166.230]:7746 helo=cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKjp4-0007Nv-22 for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 07:17:22 -0400 Authentication-Results: cdptpa-omsmta02 smtp.user=dsmich@roadrunner.com; auth=pass (LOGIN) Original-Received: from [107.14.174.248] ([107.14.174.248:11549] helo=cdptpa-web11) by cdptpa-omsmta02 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.6.9.48312 r(Core:3.6.9.0)) with ESMTPA id 48/9C-20123-FB9CF395; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 11:17:20 +0000 In-Reply-To: <87h8zk1v3v.fsf@netris.org> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Sensitivity: Normal X-Originating-IP: from 65.185.85.154 by webmail.roadrunner.com; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 11:17:17 +0000 X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.168.7:2525 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: BaiduSpider [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 107.14.166.230 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-user" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:13836 Archived-At: ---- Mark H Weaver wrote: > David Kastrup writes: > > > Mark H Weaver 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