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>>>>> On Wed, 05 Jan 2000 09:15:23 -0500, Lars Thomas Hansen <lth@xxxxxxxxxxx> said: > You are suggesting that if E returns a single value v, then > (let-values ((I E)) ...) > would bind I to v, rather than binding I to (v) as I would have it, > and that if E returns other than one value, the program is in error. > (The alternative in the latter case is that it means something > _different_ in that case, e.g. binding I to the list of values, but > I don't think anyone believes that is a good idea.) I agree. > I'm not sure what your change buys us, One thing it *could* buy is to simply use the existing names: let, let*, letrec to handle multiple values too. I don't have an opinion as to whether this would be a good thing or not. > but it removes the ability to > capture all returned values as a list. For this (I think) rare case, (let-values (((. I) E)) ...) would seem to me to do the trick (although it might break some readers). ../Dave