From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Multiple values passed as single argument to procedure
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 11:39:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mv9d7dfu.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87mv9dy5wb.fsf@gmail.com
Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> writes:
> I think I'm missing something here. In (list (f)), the call to f
> certainly looks like it's happening at a position that one might
> intuitively call a "tail" position.
It is, but list does not take multiple values and thus discards
additional values returned by f. If list were a procedure/continuation
accepting multiple values, this would likely work as you expected.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-12 9:39 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 [this message]
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
2017-06-26 11:25 ` Alex Vong
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2017-09-01 19:39 Chris Marusich
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