Subject: Re: Multiple values and BEGIN (again)
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 2000/09/24
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Message-ID: <8qkgqn$11dm8s$1@fido.engr.sgi.com>
Galen Hancock <galen@soda.csua.Berkeley.edu> wrote:
+---------------
| By the way, I do not think that signaling an error is necessarily the most
| useful behavior. In a sequential expression the return value (or values!)
| of the expression should just be ignored (IMO). But the question I was
| responding to was "is an implementation allowed to signal an error" (or
| something like | that), and I think it is.
+---------------

Ah! Then I think we agree, actually.


-Rob

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