[plt-scheme] Please help test version 359.100
At Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:12:51 -0500, Dave Herman wrote:
> >> Since the value returned by "for-each" is left unspecified
> >
> > But it isn't left unspecified. It is specified to be the specified
> > thing that the r5 report just calls "unspecified". (how confusing is
> > that?!)
>
> I had thought it was only in R6RS where they explicitly specified a
> thing called the "unspecified value," whereas in R5RS it's left ambiguous.
>
> I did a quick grep of R5RS and found that the phrase "an unspecified
> value" occurs 7 times in R5RS (all in section 6), whereas there are no
> occurrences of "the unspecified value." The use of the indefinite
> article "an" suggests that for *each* occurrence of the phrase, the
> value in question may be any value.
I'm not sure how that refutes what I wrote (was it meant to?)
I think the relevant parts of r5rs were quoted earlier in this thread
by Jacob and me. No grepping required.
Robby