Re: [Chicken-hackers] extending define-values

[Peter Bex]

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 01:43:55AM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> I've just filed ticket #1002 to extend define-values to allow arbitrary
> lambda-lists.  That allows this sort of thing:
> 
> (define-values a (procedure-returning-unknown-number-of-values))
> 
> which binds a to all the values.

Quite useful, this.  Here's a patch to make this happen.  Unfortunately,
the code that canonicalizes lambda bodies needs to take care of
define-values as well, and that's rather tricky ("disgustingly complex",
according to the comments).

For now this change might be acceptable, I'll take a stab at simplifying
it later.

Cheers,
Peter
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