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OR if some argument returns no values
To Rem at IMSSS:
The manual doesn't say as far as I can tell what OR is supposed to do
if one of the arguments doesn't return any values at all.
Page 133-134:
"If the caller of a function does not request multiple values, but the
called function returns multiple values, then the first value is given
to the caller and all the other values are discarded; if the called
function produces zero values, then the caller gets NIL as a value."
OR, COND, and friends do not expect multiple values from the sub-forms,
except in certain tail-recursive poisitions.
Seems pretty clear to me. Whether you like this behavior is another
question.
-- Scott