another question about defmacro lambda lists

[Glenn S. Burke <gsb@JASPER.PALLADIAN.COM>]

    Date: Fri, 23 Jan 87 15:05 EST
    From: David A. Moon <Moon@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>

	Date: Fri, 23 Jan 87 12:27:25 MST
	From: sandra%utah-orion@utah-cs.arpa (Sandra J Loosemore)

	Does it make sense for nested lambda lists in a defmacro to contain things
	like &environment?  CLtL does not say whether the non-top-level lambda lists
	should be ordinary function lambda lists or whether they can use the extended
	syntax.

    They certainly need to allow destructuring; it wouldn't make sense to have only
    a single level of destructuring.  I don't think &whole and &environment make
    sense any place other than at the top level, though.


&whole makes sense for subforms;  you need it if you want a pointer to the subform
being destructured.  I am assuming it applies to the subform being destructured
against the lambda-list the &whole occurs in, not that it applies to the outermost
form.