On 11-Apr-06, at 5:54 PM, Robby Findler wrote:
At Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:51:06 +0000, "Taylor R. Campbell" wrote:I'm posting this merely for the sake of offering another opinion on legibility; I don't think that any syntax changes in this area are good, because they can break existing and compliant R5RS code.Was #:keyword considered as a possibility? Robby
In Gambit (and I seem to recall in a few other Schemes) the #:foo syntax is for uninterned symbols. Moreover the foo: and :foo syntaxes are currently much more widespread in Scheme implementations so I don't think it is wise to look for even more alternative syntaxes.
Marc