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diff --git a/html/notes/strict-mode.md b/html/notes/strict-mode.md deleted file mode 100644 index 5b99386..0000000 --- a/html/notes/strict-mode.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,16 +0,0 @@ -# Strict mode to disallow ignoring returned values - -This ties in to the last point. In Scheme, a non-tail expression in a -body can return an arbitrary number of values, which will be silently -ignored. - -This can lead to bugs, where a procedure actually returns some kind of -success or failure indicator (instead of raising an error) and the -programmer forgets to handle it. - -Though it may be too inefficient to enable globally, there should at -least be a mode of compilation that emits code which checks at every -single function return whether there are any values that are being -ignored, and raises an error if so. - -There would of course be a form to explicitly ignore values. |