dummy argument to return



-----"van Nek" <van.nek at arcor.de> wrote: -----

>To: Barton Willis <willisb at unk.edu>
>From: "van Nek" <van.nek at arcor.de>
>Date: 11/10/2007 10:17AM
>cc: Maxima at math.utexas.edu
>Subject: Re: [Maxima] dummy argument to return
>
>Am 10 Nov 2007 um 10:00 hat Barton Willis geschrieben:
>
>> The Lisp error is a bug:
>>
>>   (%i24) block([],return(%pi,7));
>>   Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
>>
>
>Barton,
>would you prefer merror ?

Maybe it doesn't matter, but I think that users are sometimes a
bit frightened by "Maxima encountered a Lisp error." Why not
allow things like

  block([], return(3,4,%pi)) --> %pi

BW