Re: New Kawa features - and incompatibilities

[Jim White <jim at pagesmiths dot com>]

Per Bothner wrote:

> The other big change is that the "path expressions" discussed in
> http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/PathExpressions.html
> now use colon rather than backslash.
> ...
> This is where old code might break.  The problem (which existed
> before but is now likely to be worse) is that non-Kawa-specific
> Scheme code uses colon as a regular symbol constituent.  So
> you might a symbol named
>   format:symbol-case-conv
> as well as a function named format.

Do you attempt a lookup of the whole symbol before parsing it for the 
colon?  If so, I think most old and non-Kawa-specific code is reasonably 
supported.

Jim