Subject: Re: keyword problems
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 27 Nov 2002 14:10:50 +0000
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3247395050163759@naggum.no>

* "Charlie" <charlieb@zoom.co.uk>
| Please help this dumb newbie out!

  You have to specify all optional positional arguments before the keyword
  arguments can be processed.  Otherwise, the keyword itself (which is an
  actual argument) will /be/ the optional argument.

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Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway

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