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either-guard reference implementation Shiro Kawai (16 Jul 2020 02:15 UTC)
Re: either-guard reference implementation John Cowan (16 Jul 2020 04:28 UTC)
Re: either-guard reference implementation Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (16 Jul 2020 04:42 UTC)
Re: either-guard reference implementation Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (16 Jul 2020 05:01 UTC)
Re: either-guard reference implementation John Cowan (16 Jul 2020 15:12 UTC)
Re: either-guard reference implementation Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (16 Jul 2020 17:24 UTC)
Re: either-guard reference implementation John Cowan (16 Jul 2020 17:45 UTC)
Re: either-guard reference implementation Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (16 Jul 2020 18:04 UTC)
Re: either-guard reference implementation John Cowan (16 Jul 2020 18:07 UTC)
Re: either-guard reference implementation Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (16 Jul 2020 18:29 UTC)
Re: either-guard reference implementation John Cowan (16 Jul 2020 23:31 UTC)
Re: either-guard reference implementation Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (17 Jul 2020 00:10 UTC)
Re: either-guard reference implementation Arthur A. Gleckler (17 Jul 2020 03:15 UTC)
Re: either-guard reference implementation Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (17 Jul 2020 04:27 UTC)
Re: either-guard reference implementation Arthur A. Gleckler (17 Jul 2020 05:00 UTC)
Re: either-guard reference implementation Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (17 Jul 2020 05:55 UTC)
Re: either-guard reference implementation Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (17 Jul 2020 05:55 UTC)
Re: either-guard reference implementation Shiro Kawai (17 Jul 2020 07:35 UTC)
Re: either-guard reference implementation Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (17 Jul 2020 13:40 UTC)
Re: either-guard reference implementation Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (17 Jul 2020 13:50 UTC)
Re: either-guard reference implementation Arthur A. Gleckler (18 Jul 2020 05:22 UTC)
Re: either-guard reference implementation Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (18 Jul 2020 12:32 UTC)
Re: either-guard reference implementation John Cowan (29 Jul 2020 23:18 UTC)
Re: either-guard reference implementation Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (31 Jul 2020 08:36 UTC)
Re: either-guard reference implementation John Cowan (05 Aug 2020 06:07 UTC)
Re: either-guard reference implementation Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (05 Aug 2020 06:22 UTC)
Re: either-guard reference implementation John Cowan (05 Aug 2020 06:28 UTC)
Re: either-guard reference implementation Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (05 Aug 2020 06:48 UTC)
Re: either-guard reference implementation John Cowan (07 Aug 2020 22:08 UTC)
Re: either-guard reference implementation Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (09 Aug 2020 11:14 UTC)
Re: either-guard reference implementation John Cowan (09 Aug 2020 13:10 UTC)
Re: either-guard reference implementation Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (11 Aug 2020 08:14 UTC)
Re: either-guard reference implementation John Cowan (11 Aug 2020 16:48 UTC)
Re: either-guard reference implementation Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (15 Aug 2020 12:11 UTC)
Re: either-guard reference implementation John Cowan (15 Aug 2020 13:57 UTC)
Re: either-guard reference implementation Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (16 Jul 2020 20:40 UTC)
Re: either-guard reference implementation Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (16 Jul 2020 23:25 UTC)

Re: either-guard reference implementation Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe 16 Jul 2020 18:28 UTC

On 2020-07-16 14:06 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> I think they should reject empty bodies. What's the point of going through
> all that binding and then just returning something useless.

So should we discard all the SRFI 2 semantics relating to empty
body expressions?  Currently, we have:

    (maybe-let* ())     => (just unspecified)
    (maybe-let* (claw)) => claw

These forms are not explicitly allowed by SRFI 189--they're all
and-let* artifacts (and you have to go through Oleg's formal semantics
to know that and-let* allows them).  We could eliminate them from
the implementation (a significant simplification, too) without
changing the documnent.

Side note: SRFI 2 is definitely a little weird.

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