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Re: interface reductions
- To: Dirk Herrmann <dirk at ida dot ing dot tu-bs dot de>
- Subject: Re: interface reductions
- From: Michael Livshin <mlivshin at bigfoot dot com>
- Date: 24 May 2000 18:36:46 +0300
- Cc: Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj at mdj dot nada dot kth dot se>, Guile Mailing List <guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>, djurfeldt at nada dot kth dot se
- Organization: who? me?
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0005241722020.2822-100000@marvin.ida.ing.tu-bs.de>
Dirk Herrmann <dirk@ida.ing.tu-bs.de> writes:
> So, what is a typical use of a keyword (in comparison to using symbols
> instead)?
they are very convenient in the context of function arglists.
i.e. you use keywords to name arguments. this is mostly an aesthetic
reason, of course.
> And what does it mean that a keyword is self-evaluating?
guile> #:b
#:b
guile> '#:b
#:b
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