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- From: jaffer@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Aubrey Jaffer)
- Subject: Re: Unspecified values in R4RS
- In-Reply-To: dak@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca's message of 21 Jan 93 19:58:22 GMT
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 04:35:56 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.195822.23639@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca> dak@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca (David A Keldsen) writes:
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- How far can we go in helping programmers to detect dependencies
- on undefined return values? Should "unspecified" be a contagious
- quality of Scheme objects, as inexact is for Scheme numbers?
- Are there any papers available on this topic?
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- In Backus' Lecture in Computer Science describing the language FP he
- has a value called top (which looks like an upside down T) which
- replaces all error signalling. It is contagious through all except
- conditional expressions, if memory serves.
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