[plt-scheme] 204.7

From: Robby Findler (robby at cs.uchicago.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 1 20:14:47 EDT 2003

At Tue, 1 Jul 2003 18:03:17 -0600, Matthew Flatt wrote:
>  * Changed top-level `define-syntaxes' to treat zero results
>    from the right-hand side as a kind of abort, so that
>    
>      (define-syntax (id ...) (values))
> 
>    declares the ids without binding them. This is useful for macros
>    that expand to mutuaully recursive definitions of private variables
>    (like, of course, `package').

Is there any reason not to add some kind of new construct for this
rather than overloading the meaning of multiple values (aren't multiple
values bad enough as is!?)

Robby


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