Re: Keyword syntax

[Frederic Brunel <brunel at mail dot dotcom dot fr>]

Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de> writes:

> Frederic Brunel <brunel@mail.dotcom.fr> writes:
> 
> > I think I'm coming a bit too late to debate on language syntax but
> > why keywords must be prefixed by a #?? It's a annoying in comparison
> > with the Common Lisp syntax... In class definition its ugly! :-(
> 
> You can use
> 
>     (read-set! keywords 'prefix)
> 
> and after that, you can just write `:keyword' instead of `#:keyword'.
> 
> The alternate syntax using `#:' is there to be able to write keywords
> in otherwise R5RS conformant code (which might use `:' in normal
> symbols).

Ok, thank for the info.
I've read the R5RS paper but I don't remember any syntax definition
for keywords, maybe I missed it... I'll look at it!! :-)
It's a good idea to be able to disable this!! 

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