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| ANSI Common Lisp 26 Glossary 26.1 Glossary # K key: n. an object used for selection during retrieval. See association list, property list, and hash table. Also, see Section 17.1 Sequence Concepts. keyword: n. 1. a symbol the home package of which is the `keyword` package. 2. any symbol, usually but not necessarily in the `keyword` package, that is used as an identifying marker in keyword-style argument passing. See lambda. 3. Idiom. a lambda list keyword. keyword parameter: n. A parameter for which a corresponding keyword argument is optional. (There is no such thing as a required keyword argument.) If the argument is not supplied, a default value is used. See also supplied-p parameter. keyword/value pair: n. two successive elements (a keyword and a value, respectively) of a property list.

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