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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?