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From: lgm@polaris.ih.att.com (Lawrence G. Mayka)
Subject: Re: Prefix syntax
In-Reply-To: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au's message of 27 Mar 1995 18:08:59 +1000
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In article <3l5rqr$5ij@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:

   lgm@polaris.ih.att.com (Lawrence G. Mayka) writes:

   >In article <3kccim$ikd@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> mbk@jt3ws1.seas.ucla.edu (Kennel) writes:

   >   Richard A. O'Keefe (ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au) wrote:

   However, NOTHING he quotes was written by me.  It was (Kennel) who wrote
   the bits he quotes.  _My_ posting was a response to Kennel, and far from
   disagreeing with me at all, Mayka duplicates some of my points.  (There's
   one point of difference:  I think Common Lisp "went overboard" with
   keyword arguments, Mayka thinks it didn't use them emough.)

Sorry about the confused attribution.

   Lawrence Mayka did say:

   >Note, however, that very few
   >other commercial programming languages offer keyword arguments for
   >user-defined functions, either.  [Ada may be the exception to this.]

   I suppose VMS Pascal doesn't count?  I suppose Fortran 90 (it is an
   international standard...) doesn't count? 

From your question I assume that besides Common Lisp and Ada, Fortran
90 and VMS Pascal also support keyword arguments for user-defined
functions.  Very useful information, especially when explaining the
useful of this feature!  Thank you.
--
        Lawrence G. Mayka
        AT&T Bell Laboratories
        lgm@ieain.att.com

Standard disclaimer.
