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Subject: Re: defmethod and specializing on &key parameters.
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* Daniel Pittman
| From my reading of the HyperSpec it seems that you cannot specialize a
| method based on keyword arguments. Can someone confirm that this is,
| indeed, a correct reading of the `defmethod' entry?

  This is explained in clause 7.6 Generic Functions and Methods in the
  standard, specifically in 7.6.4 Congruent Lambda-lists for all Methods of
  a Generic Function.

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