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keywords in 1.2



I am writing a little makefile generator for the various documentation
tools we use around the office here, and I wanted to use keywords to
do a little deffin' and was surprised to find keywords apparently
busticated in guile 1.2.   I have not tried any other version so far.

For example:

guile> (keyword? :key)
ERROR: While evaluating arguments to keyword? in expression (keyword? :key):
ERROR: Unbound variable: :key
ABORT: (misc-error)

Should it not just evaluate to itself?  This is straight from an
example in the docs.  This works in CMUCL 8^)

Please tell me I'm doing something wrong.  I can work around this by
just making some symbols, but keywords are just so darn useful for
this.

-- 
Craig Brozefsky              craig@onshore.com
onShore Inc.                 http://www.onshore.com/~craig
Programmer                   loitering on the edge