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Is this a Guix conve= ntion or does it come from Guile? Although looking at Guile's Variable inde= x I see many constants in uppercase, and also some variables prefixed with = the percent sign, while Guix' Programming index doesn't seem to list any up= percase names. Thanks, --- Luis Felipe L=C3=B3pez Acevedo https://luis-felipe.gitlab.io/