Re: Keyword type?

Miles Bader <miles-mXXj517/[email protected]> Fri, 28 May 2004 03:10:33 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.scheme.pika.devel
Message-ID <20040528071033.GA14850@fencepost>
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
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