Re: values (Re: R5RS)

["C. Ray C." <crayc at 206 dot 31 dot 63 dot 15>]

On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 06:07:56AM -0600, C. Ray C. wrote:
> That sort of thing would be useful, but a new data type isn't
> necessary. Perhaps you could add something like a list binding macro,
> where you bind elements in a list to variables. Like, if we called it
> "list-let", it could look like this:
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Here is a simple implementation of the list-let I proposed:

(define-macro (list-let vars lst . body)
	`(apply (lambda ,vars ,@body) ,lst))

It'd be better to allow binding multiple lists though.