Re: [External] : Re: Shrinking the C core

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Of course, but nobody suggests it is all-in. `length' is not a keyworded
  > in CL either.

Oops, I thought it was -- but the time when I implemented and used
Common Lisp was 40 years ago.

I am pretty sure `member' used keyword arguments, and I think that
getting behavior equivalent to traditional Lisp `member' required
specifying a keyword argument.  I never forgot that, during that
period, because I got reminded of it almost every day.

  >  But it is convenient to have keywords in
  > some places, like for example in define-minor-mode or make-process, or
  > even "new" define-keymap.

I would not object to using keyword arguments for functions like that
-- complex and cumbersome to use, and not used often.

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