Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; writes: [This Lisp FAQ talking about Common Lisp is it.) > When a function takes both types of arguments, all the optional > arguments must be specified explicitly before any of the keyword > arguments may be specified. Can be not just ditch this requirement (which I consider extremely silly). > So, adding keyword arguments to a function that already accepts a > bunch of optional arguments (for historical reasons) would only > introduce *more* problems and confusion. What if you can also specify the "optional" arguments through keywords then you can just use all keywords or just positional arguments.