On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:55:28 +0100 (CET), "Leslie P. Polzer" <leslie.polzer@gmx.net> wrote:
Probably a matter of taste and editing environment. My environment highlights keyword arguments in bright green, so I'm probably quite biased in my opinion that my proposal excels not only in brevity but also readability.
Yes, the font-lock settings of your particular IDE probably aren't a good deciding factor...
But it also fits in with the rest of functions taking a TEST keyword argument, where (MEMBER obj list :TEST #'EQL) is just one example of...
I wasn't arguing against the TEST keyword argument, I was talking about syntax. Note that the we are discussing is a macro and not a function. I fail to see how the question whether MEMBER accepts a TEXT keyword argument or not fits into this.