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From: shiffman%basselope@Sun.COM (Hank Shiffman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: optional and key arguments
Message-ID: <123800@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 27 Aug 89 01:34:25 GMT
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In article <64922@linus.UUCP> bds@mbunix (Smith) writes:
>Since we were just burnt by this on a Symbolics, I wonder 
>if anyone would comment:
>
>Given the function:
>
>(defun test (a b &optional (c 0) &key (d 1))...
>
>(test 5 4 :d 0) results in an error.  
>

Yep.  This is just the way things are supposed to work.  If you have
both optional and keyword arguments, you must provide *all* the
optional arguments to get access to any of the optional ones.


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