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Re: define-values

From: Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>
To: Jim White <jim at pagesmiths dot com>
Cc: Steve Yegge <steve dot yegge at gmail dot com>, kawa at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:38:27 -0800
Subject: Re: define-values
References: <d494cb8f050322024053e64552@mail.gmail.com> <42409A02.2000207@pagesmiths.com>

Jim White wrote:

I'm fairly sure that macro is no good. It seems pretty clear the 'var' symbol is getting mixed up with 'values' at least. Also the conflict in binding contexts (need to bind to get to the values but want to creat a top-level definition) seems pretty tough (although I'm sure some syntax guru can figure something out probably using set!).


I agree with Jim.  I don't think it's practical to "fix" Kawa
to make this macro work.

It may be possible to use syntax-case to implement define-values.

And of course a "native" implementation is possible.  Maybe a nice
"starter" project for someone who wants to learn more about Kawa internals.
--
	--Per Bothner
per@bothner.com   http://per.bothner.com/

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