Keyword Arguments

• Call the function with any number of the keyword arguments, in any order

• Arguments specified as name/value pairs

  • :stream my-open-file

• Costs a couple microseconds

  • Because Lisp must parse the argument list

• Use when some arguments are only rarely needed

  • Source code in callers is greatly simplified

• Or when different calls will need different groups of arguments

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