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From: Tobias Brandt <tob.brandt@gmail.com>
To: "guile-user@gnu.org" <guile-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Why is an empty lambda body not allowed?
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 20:20:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOOWqiqJqjxR65yVALkqPT4WnyXz60svN-zQ4qt4de9rWFUMJA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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Hi,

it seems to be illegal to write
    (lambda ())

I would have expected this to evaluate to a procedure returning unspecified.

On the other hand, the following are all valid
    (begin)
    (define x (begin))
    (lambda () x)

but
    (lambda () (begin))

is not.

Why is that?


Cheers,
Tobias

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             reply	other threads:[~2014-07-04 18:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-04 18:20 Tobias Brandt [this message]
2014-07-04 18:44 ` Why is an empty lambda body not allowed? Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer
2014-07-04 19:14   ` Tobias Brandt
2014-07-04 22:01     ` Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer

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