Re: Patch for better multiple values support

[Keisuke Nishida]

At 10 May 2001 11:24:16 +0200,
Matthias Koeppe wrote:
> 
> The patch shown below does the following:
> 
> A) It replaces the fancy write representation of values with a
>    sharp-angle representation like this: #<values (3 4)>.  This is the
>    right thing to do because of reason 1) and because the intermediate
>    values objects do not have a read representation.
> 
> B) It changes the read-eval-print loop in order to explicitly deal
>    with multiple values, rather than relying on Guile's "ability" to
>    pass multiple values to single-value continuations. 

I like this; however, 

>  (define (error-catching-repl r e p)
> -  (error-catching-loop (lambda () (p (e (r))))))
> +  (error-catching-loop
> +   (lambda ()
> +     (call-with-values (lambda () (e (r)))
> +       (lambda the-values (p the-values))))))

I think the following is better:

  +     (call-with-values (lambda () (e (r)))
  +       (lambda the-values (for-each p the-values))))))

Then you don't need to modify the printer.
If nobody objects, I'll apply the patch.

Keisuke