[r6rs-discuss] "Unspecified"

From: John Cowan <cowan>
Date: Thu Sep 21 23:22:01 2006

Anton van Straaten scripsit:

> A value named "unspecified" (or #<unspecified>, #!unspecified etc.) is
> used by Chicken, Larceny, and SCM, at least. Others (in addition to
> Scheme 48) use some variant such as "unspecific". Others, of course,
> use a variation on "void", apparently borrowed from C.

The current implementation of Chicken does not have any such read-syntax.
If forced to (as by display), the unspecified value will print as
#<unspecified>, but it can't be reread. However, the core procedure
"void" returns the unspecified value when invoked.

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