[plt-scheme] keywords aren't isomorfic to symbols?

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Sun Nov 6 18:41:41 EST 2005

On Nov  7, Hans Oesterholt wrote:
> So I misinterpreted by assuming the use of keywords was closer to
> the use of symbols than to e.g. the use of strings?

They are closer to symbols in that you keywords with the same name are
eq?.


> What does this mean for the use of keywords from 'inside mzscheme'?
> 
> Thanks for the answers anyway. I'll need to modify more code then I
> assumed first to let keywords work for 'named arguments'.

There is a library that uses keywords for arguments.

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