On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 10:50:34 +0100, Christophe Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Edi Weitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> >   (UNIX:UNIX-EXIT 1 "</body></html>")[:EXTERNAL]
> >
> > Is that documented somewhere? Couldn't find it.
> >
> > And why does it look like UNIX:UNIX-EXIT accepts two arguments in
> > the debugger output above? The docstring says it only take one
> > (optional) argument.
> 
> This one I can answer... since UNIX:UNIX-EXIT takes a variable
> number of arguments, it must have an external entry point (sometimes
> XEP for short, and indicated by the [:EXTERNAL] above) where the
> first argument is the number of arguments provided.  This XEP then
> does &optional, &key and &rest argument processing before passing
> control to the "real" unix-exit function.

Ah, yes, I've read that somewhere months ago but forgot about it. I'm
getting old, but you know that... :)

Thanks,
Edi.

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