szgyg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This isn't a new idea, but the original semantic. > > | (this is not a serious proposal for a language extension, > | but only an example): > | (1) Wherever n consecutive arguments might be written in > | a function call, one may instead write {f x1 ... xm}n, > | where n is a positive integer. The "function" f must > | return n values, which are used as n arguments > | in the function call. > | (2) The primitive (values x1 ... xn) returns its n arguments > | as its n values. Thus writing "{values x1 ... xn}n" is > | the same as writing "x1 ... xn" as arguments in a > | function call. > > [Guy L. Steele: LAMBDA: The Ultimate Declarative, 1976, p 18-19]
Interesting! So how come RnRS turned out not to include this? Regards, Neil _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user