From: David T. Pierson (dtp at mindstory.com) Date: Sat Oct 1 23:52:17 EDT 2005 |
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On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 06:46:29AM -0600, Matthew Flatt wrote: > For now, we've settled on colon-prefixed keywords --- which means that > a symbol or identifier can't start with an unquoted colon: Why change the syntax like this? Can't you use a #: prefix instead? (Or something else if that is already in use.) FWIW, I don't find syntax-supported keyword arguments very compelling even with a syntax that doesn't break existing code. David
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