[plt-scheme] keywords (a backward-incompatible change)

From: Alex Shinn (foof at synthcode.com)
Date: Sat Oct 1 09:27:36 EDT 2005

At Sat, 1 Oct 2005 06:46:29 -0600, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> 
> For now, we've settled on colon-prefixed keywords

Have you considered colon-suffixed keywords?  Last I checked Scheme
implementations were fairly evenly divided between prefix and suffix.

Suffix has the advantage that it better visually pairs the keyword
with the value it labels.  It also avoids conflicts with existing
identifiers that begin with a colon, including almost all of SRFI-42.

-- 
Alex


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