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Issue: DESTRUCTURING-BIND (Version 2)
- To: Moon@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM
- Subject: Issue: DESTRUCTURING-BIND (Version 2)
- From: Eric Benson <eb@lucid.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 89 18:19:47 pst
- Cc: KMP@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM, CL-Cleanup@SAIL.STANFORD.EDU
- In-reply-to: David A. Moon's message of Fri, 27 Jan 89 21:01 EST <19890128020158.9.MOON@EUPHRATES.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 89 21:01 EST
From: David A. Moon <Moon@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
Both LOOP and DESTRUCTURING-BIND allow NIL in place of a variable
name as a way of ignoring a portion of the destructured tree, in
Symbolics current practice. I think that's a good idea and should
go in the standard. It's only an abbreviation for a dummy variable
and a DECLARE IGNORE, but the whole destructuring feature is
nothing but an abbreviation anyway.
Should NIL be allowed in DEFMACRO argument lists also?