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Re: Why are byte ports "ports" as such?

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On 14-Apr-06, at 9:37 AM, Marc Feeley wrote:
Finally, this SRFI makes only trivial use of keyword objects, and IMHO 
should be respecified to use symbols to reduce its dependencies.


I'll add something in the preamble saying:
The tokens of the form ``foo:'' used in this document will be called ``keywords''. On Scheme implementations supporting SRFI 88, these keywords correspond to the keyword objects specified in that SRFI. On Scheme implementations which do not 
   support SRFI 88, these keywords are symbols.
Sorry, I take that back, because in general it would require the keywords to be quoted, i.e. 

  (open-input-file (list 'path: "foo"
                         'char-encoding: 'cr-lf))

Marc