Re: [Kawa-commonlisp-dev] [GSoC] Parameter protocols in CL

[Jamison Hope]

(Moved to the shiny new kawa-commonlisp-dev list.)

On Jul 25, 2012, at 4:22 PM, Charles Turner wrote:

> On 25 July 2012 18:36, Charles Turner <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Afraid I still haven't made much progress on the keyword parameter
> > bug...
>
> I think I know what this is now. To recap
>
> (defun test (&key ((secret password) nil)) (list password))
>
> > (test 'secret 12)
> (nil)
>
> is the problem. The mistake is that searchForKeywords is
> (unsurprisingly) searching for a *keyword* not a symbol, which is,
> IIUC, what's required here. So since :secret != CL-USER::secret, it
> fails. It seems like LambdaExp#keywords needs to be generalised to
> Symbols, but that seems a tad drastic given that this is such an
> uncommon programming practice and I imagine it will break all kinds of
> things later on... As this would be quite a large change, are there
> any comments about it before I proceed?

So this only applies when you're doing the key-name != var-name thing,
right? Do we need that to be working right now, or can we mark it as
a known bug and move on?


-Jamie


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