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Re: [Masinter.pa: Re: questions]
- To: Skona Brittain <skona%csilvax@hub.ucsb.edu>
- Subject: Re: [Masinter.pa: Re: questions]
- From: Scott.Fahlman@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
- Date: Mon, 25 Jul 88 10:14:23 EDT
- Cc: CL-CLEANUP@SAIL.STANFORD.EDU, chapman@hudson.dec.com
- In-reply-to: Your message of Sun, 24 Jul 88 09:57:24 -0700.
I think that our working assumption has always been that, if no return
value is mentioned, NIL is returned as a single value unless there's
something obvious that has to come back as in MAKE-ARRAY. Returning no
values is more expensive than returning NIL and discarding it in many
implementations, since the single-return case usually is special-cased for
maximum speed.
-- Scott