On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 2:07 PM Lassi Kortela <xxxxxx@lassi.io> wrote:

The syntax may still change a bit; John advocates (keyword-lambda (a b
&key c d) ...) instead of (keyword-lambda (a b (c d)) ...).

I see I have yet to write down why.  Two reasons:

1) The use of &key (I assume non-hygienically) is much more transparent to the human reader.  Parentheses could mean anything at all
 
2) It's much easier to search documentation for "&key" than to search for parenthesis-grouping rules.



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