[r6rs-discuss] multiple values and mathematicians

[Andrew Reilly]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 06:29:50AM -0500, Lynn Winebarger wrote:
>    I would think set! is a much more troubling feature than multiple values.

I'm mostly happy to avoid set.  I certainly don't muck about
with set-car! and set-cdr! and friends, now.

>    The problem with multiple values is that you need kluges like call-with
> values and values to use the feature.  Making those warts disappear would be
> a useful improvement.

I'm fairly partial to PLT's "compose", although that's clearly
just convenient syntax for call-woth-values.  Let-values is OK,
too, if you need to do different things with the different
results.

Cheers,

Andrew.