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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: Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj at mdj dot nada dot kth dot se>
Date: 24 May 2000 21:42:51 +0200
Cc: Guile Mailing List <guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>, djurfeldt at nada dot kth dot se
Cc: djurfeldt at nada dot kth dot se
References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0005241524030.2822-100000@marvin.ida.ing.tu-bs.de><xy7puqc57si.fsf@mdj.nada.kth.se> <xy7hfbo56do.fsf@mdj.nada.kth.se>

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

References:
- Re: interface reductions
  - From: Dirk Herrmann
- Re: interface reductions
  - From: Mikael Djurfeldt
- Re: interface reductions
  - From: Mikael Djurfeldt

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