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From: john@mingus.mitre.org (John D. Burger)
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Subject: Re: Defining SETF :AFTER methods in PCL
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Date: 18 Jan 91 22:27:54 GMT
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desrivieres.parc@XEROX.COM (Jim des Rivieres) writes:

> Counterintuitively, all (setf xxx) functions and methods take the new
> value as their *first* argument;

What other argument position makes sense?  If you make it the last
argument of the SETF function/method, you can't have optional, rest or
keyword arguments.

John Burger



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