@screwtape @glitzersachen @mark
Keyword arguments are great!
I've done so many zillions of lines of C for systems programming that it's hard for me to see it as undesirable in that capacity, even if there is in fact a better alternative.
What one is accustomed to typically feels natural and right, just from the habits and experience, not from careful judgements.
Anyways...how easy is it to compile Common Lisp into something nicely efficient, so that it's not unnatural to use it as a systems programming language?