Re: Memory-lapse CL question about eval and let

You misunderstand, I'm not that much of a newbie to Lisp, just to CL. I
understand and am using &optional and &rest. I then wanted to add a layer on
top where the user specifies the arguments. After this I had the &rest part
in a list and simply needed to call the function, so I just glued the
optional bits onto the end of the fixed arguments and did an eval (this was
supposed to be a 5 minute hack to get someone something), only to be bitten
by the scope issue. (Many thanks for the explaination on that, BTW.)

The solution was trivial, I just used apply.

Jon
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