Re: Keyword type?
Tom Lord <lord-1tv/[email protected]> Thu, 27 May 2004 11:37:42 -0700 (PDT)
| Newsgroups | gmane.lisp.scheme.pika.devel |
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> > (How do you feel about :foo instead of #:foo? It violates R5RS, I
> > guess, but -- in any way that is likely to really matter?)
> We could do it like Guile and make the :foo syntax a reader extension
> that can be optionally enabled. There might be programs that count on
> names starting with ':' being identifiers.
Sounds like a pretty good idea. Pika programs that want to use
keywords with the pretty syntax but need to read or write symbols
whose names start with ':' can use #":foo".
-t