Is this supposed to be kosher/halal/conformant?

[Stas Boukarev]

Antoniotti Marco <antoniotti.marco at disco.unimib.it> writes:

> On Apr 13, 2013, at 20:02 , Stas Boukarev <stassats at gmail.com>
>  wrote:
>
>> Antoniotti Marco <antoniotti.marco at disco.unimib.it> writes:
>> 
>>> (defmacro foo (n &optional ((s &key d f) '(42222 :f 33)))
>>>    `(list ,f ,n ,s ,d))
>>> 
>>> 
>>> it appears to work on SBCL, CCL and LW (just changed a few things and do not have an Allegro running)
>>> 
>>> It is nice, but I believe that the CLHS says otherwise.
>> What do you mean, CLHS says otherwise?
>> See
>> http://www.lispworks.com/reference/HyperSpec/Body/03_ddab.htm
>
> Good catch.
>
> And yet...
>
> http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/03_dd.htm
And yet, what? Nothing stated there contradicts the previous section.

>
>> And why is this in pro@?
>
> Because I am a pro (albeit a small one) and this is a matter of inconsistencies in the spec?
>
It would appear to me that questions, which could be resolved by careful
reading of the spec, are out of scope of this mailing list, but what do I
know?


-- 
With best regards, Stas.