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Re: Multiple values passed as single argument to procedure
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Multiple values passed as single argument to procedure |
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Sun, 11 Jun 2017 10:28:38 +0200 |
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Chris Marusich <address@hidden> writes:
> I've noticed that when one passes multiple values as a single argument
> to a procedure, only the first value gets used. Is this expected?
Yes.
> However, I did find the following information in R6RS (Section 5.8:
> "Multiple return values"), which seems possibly relevant:
>
> "Not all continuations accept any number of values. For example, a
> continuation that accepts the argument to a procedure call is guaranteed
> to accept exactly one value. The effect of passing some other number of
> values to such a continuation is unspecified."
Guile resolves this unspecification by passing the first value. Here is
a proposal that tries normalizing the special case of passing zero
values as well:
<https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=17474>
This "use only the first value in non-multiple-value accepting contexts"
is similar to what Lua uses in the context of "..." argument lists.
--
David Kastrup
- Multiple values passed as single argument to procedure, Chris Marusich, 2017/06/11
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- Re: Multiple values passed as single argument to procedure, Mark H Weaver, 2017/06/11
- Re: Multiple values passed as single argument to procedure, Mark H Weaver, 2017/06/11
- Re: Multiple values passed as single argument to procedure, Chris Marusich, 2017/06/11
- Re: Multiple values passed as single argument to procedure, David Kastrup, 2017/06/12
- Re: Multiple values passed as single argument to procedure, Mark H Weaver, 2017/06/12
- Re: Multiple values passed as single argument to procedure, David Kastrup, 2017/06/12