Re: Object creation discussion (at last!)

[Patrick H Dussud <DUSSUD%Jenner%ti-csl.csnet@RELAY.CS.NET>]

     Date: Mon, 20 Apr 87 16:55 EDT
     From: "David A. Moon" <Moon@scrc-stony-brook.arpa>
     Subject: Re: Object creation discussion (at last!)
     
         Date: Mon, 20 Apr 87  14:49:05 CDT
         From: Patrick H Dussud <DUSSUD%Jenner%ti-csl.csnet@RELAY.CS.NET>
     
     	 Date: Fri, 17 Apr 87 14:49 EDT
     	 From: "David A. Moon" <Moon@scrc-stony-brook.arpa>
          
     	 I can't understand what you're getting at here.
     
         In Common Lisp :allow-other-keys T
         does not apply to non-keywords like JUNK.
     
     I can't find any evidence for this except at the top of p.62 in CLtL where
     it says "It is an error for the first object of each pair to be anything
     but a keyword."  I was under the impression that it had been decided a
     couple of years ago that the last word in this sentence should have been
     "symbol", but perhaps that's not true.  Unfortunately I lost my copy, but
     I think this was in the proposed corrections and clarifications Guy Steele
     distributed in December 1985.

I didn't find any reference to this in the clarifications/corrections.
     
     I tell you what I'll do; I'll go find out the format for
     submissions to the cleanup subcommittee and send this in.  Let's
     proceed on the assumption that it will be accepted.

Sounds good.