I agree, it's the kind of thing that screams out "Lisp!", but
I just couldn't think of how to do it. Guess we'll have
to leave it to the Lisp historians.
Update: Just in case anybody actually reads this and
I'm not being clear, one can simulate the Perlish behavior
simply by having a function like
(defun fred (&rest args) (do-stuff-with args)).
In fact, by treating args as a plist, one can simulate the
Perl trick of passing a hash. What I can't see is how to
get all the arguments as a list while still using Lisp's
other
facilities for handling them.
