Re: Last expression vrbl (was: python strings ( function func_doc strings ))

Bill Janssen (janssen@parc.xerox.com)
Tue, 26 Apr 1994 20:18:31 PDT

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Excerpts from ext.python: 26-Apr-94 Re: Last expression vrbl (w.. m.
garnaat@wbst128@wrc.x (345)

> Interlisp-D (one of the greatest languages/environments ever, IMHO) stored
> the value of the last return value as the variable IT. Then you could
> say things like (PRINT IT), etc. I always kind of liked that.

You could go a bit further down the road to Common Lisp, and have IT,
ITIT, and ITITIT be the last *3* values returned. Or maybe IT, WASIT,
WASWASIT, ...

Bill

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