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MULTIPLE-VALUES, consing, and clarity
- To: goldman@VAXA.ISI.EDU, COMMON-LISP@SAIL.STANFORD.EDU
- Subject: MULTIPLE-VALUES, consing, and clarity
- From: David C. Plummer <DCP@QUABBIN.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
- Date: Tue, 21 Apr 87 17:24 EDT
- In-reply-to: <8704212004.AA03718@vaxa.isi.edu>
Date: 21 Apr 1987 1204-PST (Tuesday)
From: goldman@VAXA.ISI.EDU
I'm sure this must have been suggested long ago, but I'd at least like
to know why it is not part of common lisp:
MULTIPLE-VALUE-CALL. (Naively, MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND is a macro that
turns into MULTIPLE-VALUE-CALL with a lambda-list of
(&optional ,@varlist &rest ignore)
]