"with a usage like this: (fn 1 'd 'e) how would you know..."
The interpretation is that d and e are the two optional args, so any caller wanting to supply a keyword arg has to supply the optionals. Recall that I said it was possible, not sensible. :) But in tool design I think we should let users hang themselves rather than guess (perhaps wrongly) that no one would ever come up with a good use for such a thing.
A second, lesser motivation is that CL works that way.
