Optional and Keyword Arguments

• Ways to specify the argument

  • <name> -- defaults to nil
  • (<name> <default value>)
  • (<name> <default value> <supplied-p>)

• Use optionals for small numbers of non-required arguments that are easy to remember

• Use keywords with either large numbers of non-required arguments or ones that are hard to remember

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