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From: Shiro Kawai <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: Final SRFI 189: Maybe and Either: optional container types
To: John Cowan <xxxxxx@ccil.org>


John, I think you inadvertently replied only to me.  


On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 3:19 AM John Cowan <xxxxxx@ccil.org> wrote:


On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 3:17 AM Shiro Kawai <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

I think it overlooked a correction: the signature of generation->either should be (generation->either obj objs ...).
(For the consistency with truth-either, it can be (generation->either obj fail-obj ...), but in that case the description needs to be edited accordingly.)

This is clearly an editorial oversight, and since the description is meaningless as it stands (it refers to arguments that are not given in the prototype) the second solution should be adopted.  The first solution is technically a smaller change, but means that obj and objs have completely different semantics, which is confusing.
 
values->either

The same correction should be made.

And a typo in either-guard:
   The syntactic analogue of exception-either.
Should be:
   The syntactic analogue of exception->either.

This should also be fixed.

Arthur, please apply 6430f90dc6b832d89e926ae4e6d300363e75b19b.  I think no notification in the document is required.