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Re: &rest replacement/addition
From: Barry Margolin <barmar@Think.COM>
Subject: &rest replacement/addition
Actually, if this were added, the operations that extract the arguments
need not be special forms. &MORE-ARGS <var> could bind <var> to an
object of type MORE-ARGS. Common Lisp would only specify accessors for
this object, so it could be passed along with no possibility of strange
side-effects. APPLY could also be extended to allow a MORE-ARGS in
place of a list as its last argument.
barmar
But can an object of type MORE-ARGS be returned from a function, or
otherwise stuffed in data structures which survive the dynamic extent
of the function call that spawned them? That's what this whole
argument started with...
(Sean's original proposal had no &more-args variables. Any
implementation would, of necessity, have some such thing internally,
but users would not be able to get their hands on them).
rst