[racket-dev] actionable items, was: comments on "comments on learning Racket"
On 04/28/2014 10:08 AM, Laurent wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Matthias Felleisen
> <matthias at ccs.neu.edu <mailto:matthias at ccs.neu.edu>> wrote:
> [...]
>
> Why not something like `apply->list` or `apply/list`?
> (personally I usually call it `cvl` for call/values->list, but that's
> because I often use it on the command line, which makes going from `(foo
> 'a 'b 'c)` to `(cvl foo 'a 'b 'c)` effortless)
>
> (define (nth-return-value i f . s)
> (call-with-values
> (lambda () (apply f s))
> (lambda l (list-ref l i))))
unstable/list has an unexported 'values->list' macro that takes an
expression and returns the list of values it produces.
Ryan