Suggested new lambda-list syntax

[David A. Moon <MOON at MIT-MC>]

I think &OPTIONAL, &REST, &AUX, and &KEY are quite different from the other
lambda-list keywords.  Those four keywords delimit boundaries between
various sublists, which could have been written as separate lists except
that that would be a mess.  Your proposal doesn't really apply sensibly to
those four keywords.  For other ones like &QUOTE, &SPECIAL, etc. it would
be an improvement.

A separate point: I don't think it makes sense to complicate the syntax in
order to get rid of the reserved words.  Reserved words in this context cause
no harmful effects, whereas a syntax with more parentheses and more noise
words would decrease readability, and in a very central, heavily-used part
of the language too.

The reserved words could be :-prefixed rather than &-prefixed except that
:-prefixed keywords can sometimes be EQ to ordinary symbols, which -would-
make the reserved words difficult to live with.