Re: primitive-load returning result of last evaluation?

[Marius Vollmer]

Rob Browning <address@hidden> writes:

> Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > i think this is a reasonable change, but perhaps there is a good
> > reason this hasn't been done since return value was fixed in 1996-09
> > (libguile/load.c 1.4).
> 
> I'd be hesitant to change this too until we've had a chance to
> consider the issue carefully.

Yes.  Before we make this change, we should have a way to put Guile
into a R5RS mode (maybe plus selected SRFIs).  The R5RS 'load' would
return #<unspecified>, while the normal Guile 'load' might return the
value of the last form, and take all kinds of additional arguments,
etc.