Re: chicken literary spoofs (was: Re: argument against using '() for null values? ([Chicken-users] DBI))

2008-03-03 Thread Graham Fawcett
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Shawn Rutledge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Chicken Literary is all in a panic that the stacks are falling.

lol!

Fortunately, Chicken Literary and his friends visited the fox, Henry
Baker, who reminded them that their stacks are GC'd frequently. All
was well again in Chicken Literary Land!

But when he added that function-calls never return, Chicken Literary
and friends lapsed into an existential stupor. And Henry the Fox ate
them.

G


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Re: chicken literary spoofs (was: Re: argument against using '() for null values? ([Chicken-users] DBI))

2008-03-03 Thread Shawn Rutledge
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Graham Fawcett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Fortunately, Chicken Literary and his friends visited the fox, Henry
  Baker, who reminded them that their stacks are GC'd frequently. All
  was well again in Chicken Literary Land!

  But when he added that function-calls never return, Chicken Literary
  and friends lapsed into an existential stupor. And Henry the Fox ate
  them.

You handled the continuation very well, congratulations.  Not a very
happy ending though.  After (eat ...) I suppose the return value is
undefined, isn't it...


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Re: chicken literary spoofs (was: Re: argument against using '() for null values? ([Chicken-users] DBI))

2008-03-03 Thread Elf

On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Shawn Rutledge wrote:


On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Graham Fawcett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Fortunately, Chicken Literary and his friends visited the fox, Henry
 Baker, who reminded them that their stacks are GC'd frequently. All
 was well again in Chicken Literary Land!

 But when he added that function-calls never return, Chicken Literary
 and friends lapsed into an existential stupor. And Henry the Fox ate
 them.


You handled the continuation very well, congratulations.  Not a very
happy ending though.  After (eat ...) I suppose the return value is
undefined, isn't it...



nah, its not undefined.  there is no return value, remember?  and the 
continuation is clearly 'eat - burp - digest'


-elf


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