Stray Birds

[Morry Katz <katz@quilty.stanford.edu>]

   Date: Tue, 2 Mar 93 20:58:37 -0500
   From: "Guillermo J. Rozas" <gjr@martigny.ai.mit.edu>
   Reply-To: gjr@martigny.ai.mit.edu

      Date: Tue, 2 Mar 93 15:49:10 -0800
      From: Morry Katz <katz@quilty.Stanford.EDU>
      Reply-To: katz@cs.stanford.edu

      The above is not the agreement on multiple values as I understood it.
      I distinctly remember us stating that "it is an error" to supply too
      many or too few values.  Since it is not required that an
      implementation "signal an error", the above implementation is correct,
      albeit probably not desirable.

   I don't understand.

   Are any of the following illegal?

   ((lambda a-list-of-all-the-arguments ...) 1 2 3 4)

   ((lambda a-list-of-all-the-arguments ...) 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9)

   No, because the procedure generated by 
   (lambda a-list-of-all-the-arguments ...)
   takes _any_ number of arguments.

   If so, how can you pass it the wrong number?

   I don't see why

   (call-with-values (lambda () ...)
     (lambda a-list-of-all-the-arguments ...))

   should be illegal (unless any of the ... are).

Please disregard my pevious message.  I was suffering from a serious
case of brain damage that has hopefully been cured by a full frontal
lobotomy.  What you wrote is not what I thought I read.
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Morry Katz
katz@cs.stanford.edu
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