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authorKaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com>2014-08-08 07:50:07 -0700
committerKaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com>2014-08-08 07:50:07 -0700
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Bugfix: ret operator does not generate functions
that take any number of arguments. * eval.c (me_ret): Generate (op identity (progn @rest <expr>)) rather than of (op identity <expr>). * txr.1: Update misleading equivalence.
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@@ -12504,7 +12504,10 @@ and returns the value specified by <form>.
The following equivalence holds:
- (ret x) <--> (op identity x)
+ (ret x) <--> (op identity (progn @rest x))
+
+where the @rest parameter is mentioned for its side effect of making
+op generate a function which accepts any number of arguments.
The expression (ret @2) returns a function similar to
(lambda (x y . z) y).