Re: Items blocking release 1.6.1 (2002-04-21)

[Marius Vollmer]

Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> writes:

>    From: Marius Vollmer <address@hidden>
>    Date: 28 Apr 2002 18:00:00 +0200
> 
>    Yes, of course.  The quibbling is over the default default value,
>    i.e. the value to use as a default value when no default value has
>    been specified explicitely.
> 
> no the quibbling is over removal of `bound?' (see summary field in the
> bug report).  if you can expand the problem-solving process to solve
> this (original) problem, that would be best.

Yes, right.  I would propose to follow Common Lisp here:

    (define* (foo :optional (bar #f bar-bound?))
      (if bar-bound?
          ...))