Re: [Maxima-discuss] Changing ERRSET to support multiple values

[Kris K. <kat...@gm...>]

On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 08:57:13AM -0700, Raymond Toy wrote:
> I think your approach is good.

Thanks for taking the time to look at this.

> An alternative approach, which is a lot more work, is to return two
> values like cl::ignore-errors.  If there are no errors, return the
> (multiple) values of the form.  If there is an error, return nil and a
> second value that is the error condition. This means updating all the
> call sites to handle this case, though, and that might not be
> desirable.

Yeah, I think something like this would be better overall since we're in
CL and have multiple values.  Maybe another time :-)

Cheers,
Kris Katterjohn