Re: Keyword type?
Miles Bader <miles-mXXj517/[email protected]> Fri, 28 May 2004 03:10:33 -0400
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I think keywords in the normal lisp sense should not have `foo:' syntax -- it looks nice in for some uses, but in most lisps they're used for many different applications where such a syntax is simply confusing. [FWIW, my original introduction to keywords was with franz lisp, which _did_ use the foo: syntax; I thought Common-Lisp's use of :foo was annoying at first, but I quickly realized it was better given the way they were used.] Of course you could have multiple keyword types I suppose... that'd also help with the ambiguity of :kw1 :val :kw2. -Miles -- `The suburb is an obsolete and contradictory form of human settlement'