Re: Is recieve macro from base implementation of SRFI-1 in fact SRFI-8? Jakub T. Jankiewicz 24 Aug 2021 08:38 UTC


On Tue, 24 Aug 2021 09:50:53 +0200
Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for sharing this.  As for the name:  After having rethought it, the
> name "opt-lambda" (or a similar one) is the better name because we already
> have case-lambda (and match-lambda in SRFI 204).
>
> (opt-lambda (x y (z a) . rest)
>   ...)
>
> and not
>
> (opt-lambda (x y (z a) rest)
>   ...)
>

case and match are full words so I would use:

optional-lambda instead of opt-lambda

Just want to be sure that this will not land in SRFI. I don't know all SRFI
but it seems that most functions don't use shortcuts in names.

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