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On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Alan Watson wrote: > How is this different from expecting to read a list and getting #f > instead, and not being sure if the #f appeared as a literal in the input > stream or was generated by code called by the reader? It's different because #f is a useful value, not a signal that some operation failed or was invalid. In general, operations that are supposed to retrieve a value can fail, and then what value do they return? Bear