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Re: [Chicken-users] What does #!key mean?


From: Thomas Chust
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] What does #!key mean?
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 19:52:51 -0000
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Am 25.09.2005, 19:07 Uhr, schrieb Shawn Rutledge <address@hidden>:

I see this in spiffy for example:

(define (start-server #!key (root (spiffy-root-path)) ...

Is this a mechanism to pass named parameters to a function?

Hello,

that is exactly what it does, yes. Under section 5.1 "Deviations from the standard" the CHICKEN manual states that DSSSL style lambda lists are supported and also describes how they work exactly.

cu,
Thomas




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