[r6rs-discuss] "Unspecified"

[John Cowan]

Jeff Read scripsit:

> A cynical external observer could infer that this is a bike shed issue. 

Indeed.  Some alternative names proposed on #scheme:

5:16:59 <twb> The value that is not dead which can eternal lie.
05:17:24 <twb> The value that shall not be named.
05:17:33 <arcus> absurdity? :] \
05:17:37 <twb> The elder value.
05:17:37 <mbishop> hah that's what I was thinking twb
05:18:20 <astecp> NaV

I had proposed "the content-free value" earlier; I would also propose
"the useless value".

Summary:  Editors, "the unspecified value" won't fly.  Pick something
else and insist on it.

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