[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] last-element behavior of for-each

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> writes:

> If we don't care about the results of the function on any of the
> preceding elements, why are we likely to care on the final elements,
> indeed?  I don't remember ever using for-each for anything but effect.

I suppose the tail call was the motivation, rather than the result.

But I agree that it's perhaps not worth the trouble, i.e. that
programmers shouldn't expect a tail call here.

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