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From: andy@solitary.Stanford.EDU (Andy Freeman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: LET vs. &aux
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Date: 2 Jan 89 21:08:05 GMT
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In article <5727@polya.Stanford.EDU> caron@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ilan G. Caron) writes:
>The question is: why does &AUX even exist?

&AUX is convenient if you'd like to write a destructuring function
defining macro and don't want to figure out how to parse declarations.

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