Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR: (#439) quasiquote changes

[John Cowan]

Thomas Chust scripsit:

> to me the analogy seems quite well chosen. By the way, sometimes I
> actually wonder whether splicing behaviour of multiple values in an
> argument list wouldn't be a good idea, but I'm unsure.

It's a Really Bad Idea, because it makes it impossible, for example, to
report (cons (x)) as a compile-time error (too few arguments). After
all, what if x returns two values?

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