Re: return

[Miles Bader]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:
> That is, I think it would probably be pretty nice if every defun
> establishes a nil block.  So this wouldn't be a Common Lisp-ism, but
> better!  :-)
>
> (If we want to avoid confusion with the CL return, then we could call it
> something else, like freturn.)

Doesn't every defun in CL establish a nil block?

What you're proposing looks pretty much exactly like CL...

(by "CL", note that I mean "Common Lisp", not "cl.el")

Which is fine of course, CL's block mechanism is nice.

Of course one question is:  what about returns out of lambdas?
Would/should they be supported, given that they need an entirely
different mechanism internally?

-Miles

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