On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Michael Lucy <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Is there any scheme expression that will just get ignored when the
> scheme code is compiled?
>
> I'm generating some code with a function like:
>
> (define (gen-update-ab updatea updateb)
>  `(begin
>     ,(if updatea `(set! a (+ a 1)) `(donothing))
>     ,(if updateb `(set! b (+ b 1)) `(donothing))))
>
> And ideally I could replace the donothing function with something that
> will get discarded during compilation.

I'm not sure if Guile will discard the result, but I think
*unspecified* is the idiomatic value for those sorts of situations.

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