Leslie P. Polzer <sky <at> viridian-project.de> writes:
To discern them from the underlying accessors. Every function with the * suffix is a convenience interface.
I understand that, but take, for example (cookie-in name &optional request) where request defaults to *REQUEST*. I think request-uri* could be a default method for the generic function request-uri.
Sincerely yours, Dmitri