On Fri 20 May 2011 16:28, John Cowan <[email protected]> writes:
> Per Bothner scripsit: > >> In Kawa set! returns no values. I think this makes the REPL nicer: >> set!, define, and similar forms return no values, which prints out as >> nothing. > > Every R5RS-compliant Scheme I know of does effectively the same thing: > it returns a distinguished value which the P part of the REPL ignores. > There was a discussion of standardizing this value, but the the WG > decided not to. I think that Per is saying that if `set!' returns no values, then there is nothing for P to ignore. Andy -- http://wingolog.org/ _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
