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&allow-other-keys
- To: MOON%SCRC-TENEX @ mit-mc
- Subject: &allow-other-keys
- From: Scott E. Fahlman <Fahlman@CMU-CS-C>
- Date: Wed, 11 May 1983 01:08:00 -0000
- Cc: common-lisp@SU-AI
No, I don't think that missing required args should default to nil or
that extraneous arguments should be ignored. But keyword lists have a sort
of built-in safety about them that counted-and-ordered argument lists
don't have. Or at least they would if misspelling could be ruled out.
I don't really expect to win on this one, and am not entirely sure that
I want to. A trial balloon, as they say in Washington.
If we continue with the current &allow-other-keys business, the
:allow-other-keys extension doesn't seem too bad. It adds complexity,
but I have nothing less complex to propose.
-- Scott