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From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: net.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Optional Arguments in Franz Lisp
Message-ID: <2078@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 8-Jun-84 00:14:40 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  8 00:14:40 1984
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(defun f (&optional x &optional y) (cons x y))
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I don't know Franz Lisp, but in Maclisp and Zetalisp, everything
following &optional is optional, which means the second &optional is
redundant, and this is probably the cause for the error.
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			Barry Margolin
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