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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Virtues of Lisp syntax
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Date: 22 Sep 90 15:35:21 GMT
References: <33709@cup.portal.com> <1990Sep10.091911.20877@hellgate.utah.edu> <PCG.90Sep13135243@odin.cs.aber.ac.uk> <1990Sep18.002137.10940@cbnewsc.att.com>
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In article <PCG.90Sep13135243@odin.cs.aber.ac.uk>, pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
> The real challenge here is that we want some syntax that says, apply
> this operator symbol to these arguments and return these value_s_. Even
> lisp syntax does not really allow us to easily produce multiple values.

I may be being more than usually dense, here, but what's wrong with returning
a list? What could be more natural?
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