Re: If it looks like a bug and smells like a bug .....

"Tim Bradshaw (as tfb at cley dot com)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.lispworks.general
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On 5 May 2025, at 15:23, Paul Werkowski (as pw at snoopy dot qozzy dot com) <[email protected]> wrote:

> CLTL page 76 deals with parsing lambda-lists.

Just to add to what phoe said: CLtL is not a reference for anything (although it once was).

The place you want to look to understand keywords in generic function lambda lists is https://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/07_fe.htm and links therefrom.

In particular the generic function definition you refer to says that methods on it accept keyword arguments but not which.  For a particular call the valid keyword arguments are defined by the applicable methods.

--tim
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