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Re: Issue KEYWORD-ARGUMENT-NAME-PACKAGE
- To: Moon@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM
- Subject: Re: Issue KEYWORD-ARGUMENT-NAME-PACKAGE
- From: Masinter.pa@Xerox.COM
- Date: 30 Jul 87 17:15 PDT
- Cc: CL-CLEANUP@SAIL.STANFORD.EDU
- In-reply-to: David A. Moon <Moon@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>'s message of Thu, 30 Jul 87 14:29 EDT
While I think that "positional" and "named" are good ways of talking
about the different kinds of arguments, and that "key arguments" is
awkward, I don't think it is necessary for you to spend your time
rewriting the proposal KEYWORD-ARGUMENT-NAME-PACKAGE, which doesn't
make any recommendations about terminology in the standard; rather, it
just uses it locally.
I would like to see a set of "terminology" recommendations for the spec
gathered and passed by X3J13; there are a number of other things which
have passed through here that would belong in it. I don't think they fit
into the standard form for language changes (since the considerations
are different, e.g., "current practice" might refer to existing
textbooks and programming language literature).