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Structure sharing in arguments
- To: "David C. Plummer" <DCP@SCRC-QUABBIN.ARPA>
- Subject: Structure sharing in arguments
- From: "Scott E. Fahlman" <Fahlman@C.CS.CMU.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1986 03:18:00 -0000
- Cc: common-lisp@SU-AI.ARPA
- Sender: FAHLMAN@C.CS.CMU.EDU
By the way, one thing I proposed a long time ago, and plan to re-propose
now, is a new &MORE construct that would allow functions to take
arbitrary numbers of arguments in the style of LEXPR, keeping them on
the stack until asked for and not consing them into a list. I don't
want to debate this now -- give me a chance to propose it properly first
-- but I thought I'd better mention this as a piece of context that
might keep people from getting too tense about the efficiency of &rest
args.
-- Scott