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Re: proposing a simpler mechanism

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Hallo,

On 11/13/09, Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'll admit that, along with Kent Dybvig, I'm no fan of arity inspection,
>  for a jillion reasons.  I think it's ill-conceived.
>
>  But if it must happen, how about this:
>
>  (procedure-arity PROC) returns two values, first, the minimum number of
>  arguments, and second, whether additional arguments are permissible.
>  This exactly covers the possibilities for standard Scheme.  It is
>  trivial to implement given any of the common facilities out there.  It
>  is clear and simple and easy to specify.
>

     Unlike Dybvig's proposal, this allocates the multiple return
values in the heap in implementations that implement (values) as a
vector constructor.

Cheers,
-- 
-alex
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