[plt-scheme] Please help test version 359.100
At Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:43:07 -0500, Dave Herman wrote:
> > I think Jacob and I only said it cannot be *multiple* values, unless
> > your system implicitly converts multiple values to a single value.
> >
> > No one has disagreed with that.
>
> Now I think I understand what your point was before -- IIUC, you weren't
> saying that there is a single value dubbed "the unspecified value";
> rather, you were just saying that even in R5RS, the result of for-each
> is still *specified*, it's just specified to be *any single value*.
Right. (unless your system implicitly does multiple-value => single
value conversion, as jacob pointed out)
> So even though this is less constrained than the draft R6RS semantics
> (where there is only one single "unspecified value" for all
> implementations and all program executions), your earlier point was that
> it's still misleading in R5RS to call it "unspecified," since it is
> perfectly well specified as "any single value."
>
> According to Jacob's (plausible) interpretation.
>
> Do I read you correctly?
YES! :)
Robby