Re: Generating procedure arguments

[James Clark <jjc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This is what the apply primitive is for.

Chris Maden wrote:
> 
> In the interest of modularity, I'm trying to pass function parameters
> through one function to another.  Here's a simple solution:
> 
> (element a
>          (some-function other-fxn-args: '(arg1: value1)))
> 
> (define (some-function #!key other-fxn-args)
>   (do-something (other-fxn (car other-fxn-args)
>                            (cadr other-fxn-args))))
> 
> (define (other-fxn #!key arg1)
>   (debug arg1))
> 
> This works correctly; (other-fxn) gets value1 as the value of arg1.
> But I'd like to be able to pass an arbitrary number of arguments,
> maybe keywords, maybe not, without the intermediary function worrying
> about the nature and order.  But I can't do any loop function, since
> those need to return a single object, and that won't work.
> 
> In short: is there any way to burst or split a list into its
> components?  This would be a function that returns multiple objects,
> which I'm not sure is possible, but it would be really nice if there
> were a way to do this.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Chris
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