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Re: Return


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Return
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 08:42:13 -0500

    IIRC rms has recently declared his dislike for CL-style keyword
    arguments.

I don't mind them in things that are very heavyweight anyway, such as
setting frame attributes.  What I dislike about Common Lisp is
introducing them into familiar basic Lisp functions such as `member'.
Common Lisp also changes `member' incompatibly to use `eql' as the
default comparison function.  So you must use a keyword argument to
get the existing `member' behavior.


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Richard Stallman
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