Ceci n'est pas une value (was Re: [R6RS] "void" or "unspecific")
Anton van Straaten
anton at appsolutions.com
Wed May 3 14:25:16 EDT 2006
William D Clinger wrote:
> By the way, here is some background information on precedent
> for issue 33:
>
> MzScheme, Chez Scheme, and Gambit use some variation of "void".
>
> Bigloo, SCM, Guile, Chicken, and Larceny use some variation of
> "unspecified".
>
> Scheme48 uses #{Unspecific}.
Related to this, the last two or three status reports have specified
that R6RS will have "read-write invariance for every datum". Our final
vote on #3 today was to not add #!unspecified as syntax. How, then,
will read-write invariance work in a case such as:
(write (list (unspecified)))
?
Anton
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