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suggestion for ballot: :allow-other-keys
- To: David A. Moon <MOON%SCRC-TENEX%MIT-MC@SU-DSN>
- Subject: suggestion for ballot: :allow-other-keys
- From: Scott E. Fahlman <Fahlman@CMU-CS-C>
- Date: Tue, 10 May 1983 22:57:00 -0000
- Cc: common-lisp@SU-AI
- In-reply-to: Msg of 10 May 1983 15:26-EDT from David A. Moon <MOON%SCRC-TENEX%MIT-MC at SU-DSN>
Urk!
I've always thought that &allow-other-keys was a crock, and that
unrecognized keywords should just be quietly ignored. That would solve
this problem in a truly elegant way and speed up calls to keyword
functions by a moderate factor, since it takes a separate scan of the
argument list to look for bogus keywords. I will admit that signalling
the unrecognized-keyword error is useful in catching spelling errors,
but a good editor top-level could take care of that.
Just thought I'd rasie this possibility before we add yet another
epicycle.
-- Scott