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Subject: [bug#29745] [PATCH 0/3] Disallow phase returning <unspecified>.
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Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 10:26:08 +0100
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On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 09:01:01AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> I’m not opposed to changing things though.  For instance we could change
> the return value of ‘substitute*’ to be #t on success; similarly for
> ‘install-file’.
> 
> What do people think?

I agree, since I never understood why the function does not return a truth
value, if it is something we are interested in later for our phases.

Andreas