[R6RS] heads up on ticket 152

William D Clinger will at ccs.neu.edu
Mon Mar 5 10:17:17 EST 2007


Kent wrote:
> Ticket 152 was withdrawn by the submitter in his last note in the thread
> with the formal comment at its head:
>
>   You can close the formal comment that led us here, since it was mainly
>   about getting appropriate treatment of non-single values in body forms.
>
> yet the formal comment includes a statement (inaccurate, IMO) of the
> situation and suggests a radical and not backward compatible change to the
> language.
>
> We need to consider whether we want to reopen these issues
> (multiple-values and the unspecified value) before we spend precious time
> discussing any reponse other than "comment withdrawn by submitter".

I think it would be useful to respond to that formal
comment, if only to get the editors' rationale into
the record.

Will



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