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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: SRFI-88-style keywords
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:37:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d4urxumt.fsf@chbouib.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 2bc5f8210711021714t4b3c3743v7dc76a882916be42@mail.gmail.com

Hi,

"Julian Graham" <joolean@gmail.com> writes:

> I was looking at some SRFIs recently (specifically SRFIs 88, 89, and
> 90), and I noticed that Guile could support all three of them pretty
> easily if the reader allowed self-quoting keywords in which the colon
> comes at the end, a la SRFI-88.  The default reader behavior is to
> only parse tokens as keywords if they begin with #: (e.g., #:foo), but
> you can modify this behavior by setting the reader option (keywords
> 'prefix), which gets you keywords that start with just the colon
> (e.g., :foo).  What if we added another reader option, say, (keywords
> 'postfix), which would recognize SRFI-88-style keywords?

Looks like a good idea.

I tend to think we would not add it in 1.8, or at least not in 1.8.4, so
that the reader can stabilize before we break it again.  :-)

Thanks,
Ludovic.



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  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-03 14:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-03  0:14 SRFI-88-style keywords Julian Graham
2007-11-03 14:37 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2008-04-15 18:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2008-04-15 18:30   ` Julian Graham
2008-04-15 18:56     ` Ludovic Courtès
2008-04-26 19:35   ` Ludovic Courtès
2008-04-27  5:31     ` Julian Graham
2008-04-27 11:22       ` Ludovic Courtès

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