Re: Argument lists

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    Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1986  23:25 EDT
    From: "Scott E. Fahlman" <Fahlman@C.CS.CMU.EDU>
    To:   common-lisp@SU-AI.ARPA
    Subject: Argument lists
    Message-ID: <FAHLMAN.12219093455.BABYL@C.CS.CMU.EDU>
    
    
    Perhaps we can try to converge on the argument-list business.  Nick
    Gall's proposal seems to be the leading contender for a low-cost
    standard way of finding out how a function may legally be called.  This
    is an upward-compatible extension to the language:
    
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
    (function-parameter <function>)
    
I think this is a typo.  Should be function-parameters.

    ...
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
    (function-parameter-names <function>)
    
    Takes one argument which must be a function, not a macro or special
    form.
    
    Returns two values:
    
    1. A list containing the symbols naming the required, optional, and rest
       parameters, in order, if this information is available; NIL
       otherwise.
    2. T if the list returned as value 1 is valid; NIL otherwise.
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
    
    Would something like this be useful in the standard, or should we let
    each implementation decide for itself wht format to use in providing
    arglist info?
    
Looks fine (and useful) to me.
		
-- Nick