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Re: another nit.


Dirk Herrmann <dirk@ida.ing.tu-bs.de> writes:

> On 6 Jul 2000, Michael Livshin wrote:
> 
> > (if #f #f) will yield you the `unspecified' object in any Scheme.
> 
> As will (set! foo bar)?  No:  There is no such thing as an unspecified
> object in R5RS.  R5RS says about 'unspecified':
> 
>   If the value of an expression is said to be "unspecified," then the
>   expression must evaluate to some object without signalling an error, but
>   the value depends on the implementation; this report explicitly does not
>   say what value should be returned.

um...  that's right.

--mike,
heading home to sleep.

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