From: "Clément Lassieur" <clement@lassieur.org>
To: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why should build phases not return unspecified values?
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2017 11:35:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <876095bq1r.fsf@lassieur.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cu7o9mx3gsh.fsf@systemreboot.net>
Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> writes:
> Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I think the problem is that when the scheme standard says "the returned
>> value is unspecified", it means anything can be returned. In this case,
>> guile choose to return an unspecified value to avoid returning an
>> arbitary value.
>>
>> I think the answer written by soegaard in [0] explains it pretty well.
>>
>> [0]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28910911/detecting-unspecified-in-scheme-list
>
> This is new to me. But, since we only use the Guile implementation, I
> think we should be ok with phases returning #<unspecified>.
But is there any guarantee that a Guile function returning
#<unspecified> won't return, say, #f in later versions? If it does,
there would be a bug in phases that don't add #t at the end.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-17 10:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-16 23:28 Why should build phases not return unspecified values? Arun Isaac
2017-12-17 7:03 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-12-17 7:10 ` Alex Vong
2017-12-17 8:22 ` Arun Isaac
2017-12-17 10:35 ` Clément Lassieur [this message]
2017-12-18 9:40 ` Andy Wingo
2017-12-19 21:35 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-12-20 2:15 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-12-20 9:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-20 10:15 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-12-20 10:27 ` Arun Isaac
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