Two days ago, Jay McCarthy wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Stephan Houben <stephan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Jay,
> >
> > So what about keyword return values? Both because of symmetry and
> > because getting three return values straight is just as hard as
> > getting three arguments straight.
>
> That's old news:
>
> https://github.com/jeapostrophe/exp/blob/master/values.ss
>
> FWIW, keywords aren't built-in in Racket for function calls, so this
> approach to them in function returns *is* symmetric.
IIRC, when the then-new keywords where added Matthew had a concrete
way to wrap continuations so that things would be symmetric again, but
I think that practicalities wo and he preferred to avoid the cost.
(Either a run-time cost, or making things complicated.)
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