[racket] In rkt or scheme, is there way to refer to the value of last expression?

From: Neil Van Dyke (neil at neilvandyke.org)
Date: Mon Dec 12 19:04:24 EST 2011

Also, consider a "let*" form.  You can even use the same variable name 
for each binding, if you like.

Neil Van Dyke wrote at 12/12/2011 07:02 PM:
> J G Cho wrote at 12/12/2011 06:49 PM:
>> Just for the readability, is it possible to write
>>
>> some-list
>> (proc-1 some-list)
>> (proc-2 (val-of-last-expression))
>> ...
>> (proc-n (val-of-last-expression)) ;where n is 'largeish'
>
>
> If you are interacting in XRepl, you can do this:
> http://docs.racket-lang.org/xrepl/index.html?q=xrepl#%28part._past-vals%29 
>
>
> You can also define a new "#lang" or syntactic form that does this.  
> Whether using this would be more "readable" than nesting the 
> expressions the usual way, I could not say.
>
> It might also be the case that these is a better way do solve your 
> particular concrete problem, rather than either "largeish N" nested 
> procedure applications or breaking the usual syntactic clarity of Racket.


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