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call-with-multiple-values



Playing a little with call-with-values this week-end, I wonder why this
precise order of arguments:

        (call-with-values values-producer function) 

It seems to me that it would be simpler (from a mental point of
view) to adopt a signature closer to `apply' which in turn would
allow to go from a binary to a n-ary call-with-values. Something like:

   (call-with-values function arg1 ... argN other-args-producer)

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This also reminded me of proposals made at ISO to unify multiple
values with &rest variables. As far as I recall this was an idea first
mentionned by Herbert Stoyan in a EuLisp meeting some 5 years ago, and
reworked for ISO by Jerome Chailloux, Greg Nuyens, Julian Padget and
myself. Instead of having a thunk for other-values-producer, it might be
possible to have a "dotted variable" as for example in

(define (foo key . others)
  (call-with-value + others) )

but that's another story for r>5rs.
end{digression}

		Christian.