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Re: interface reductions
Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se> writes:
> BTW, three motivations for keeping keywords:
>
> 1. They are in the IEEE Scheme standard (I think!)
This is wrong. I was thinking about a Scheme variant called DSSSL
which has postfix keywords
xxx:
The idea in Guile is that different modules can use different read
syntax for keywords, but the canonical syntax
#:xxx
is chosen not to intrude on the symbol name space of RnRS