Subject: Re: help w/ &key in macros From: Erik Naggum <cl@naggum.no> Date: 1998/06/01 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3105673084328091@naggum.no> * David Bakhash | is there some significance to the dot `.' before and after the | `arguments'? i.e. what are the dots for? to me, such dots communicate "internal use". in a macro, you would typically have used an uninterned symbol to avoid problems, except that this would make the argument list less than useful. "&rest .arguments." at least says something moderately useful. (remember that all characters can be part of symbol names, and that people adopt many conventions to deal with cognitive overload. *foo* for specials is a pretty solid convention, many use +foo+ for constants, some use .foo. for internal use, I used class names like <foo> for a while, and perhaps there are some even less widely used conventions. :) #:Erik -- "Where do you want to go to jail today?" -- U.S. Department of Justice Windows 98 slogan