Re: [Erc-help] [PATCH] Change how erc-select gets its arguments

[Jeremy Maitin-S. <jb...@at...>]

Alex Schroeder <al...@em...> writes:

> Brian Palmer <bp...@re...> writes:
>> As part of cleaning up erc-select's interface, I changed it to 
>> (defun* erc-select (&optional (server erc-server) (port erc-port) (nick
> erc-nick) passwd)

> Is this really necessary?  In the Emacs sources, I have never seen it
> until now.

Well, it allows for the use of the many syntactic conveniences, such as
default values and keyword arguments, that are supported by Common Lisp
but not the Emacs `defun.'  I don't see any particular advantage in not
using them -- using plain `defun' isn't really any cleaner.
Furthermore, it only requires cl at compile-time, and we already use the
cl package throughout ERC.

-- 
Jeremy Maitin-Shepard