Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs Lassi Kortela (21 Jul 2019 19:42 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs Arthur A. Gleckler (21 Jul 2019 20:43 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs Lassi Kortela (21 Jul 2019 20:52 UTC)
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Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs Lassi Kortela (21 Jul 2019 21:12 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs Amirouche Boubekki (21 Jul 2019 21:30 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs John Cowan (21 Jul 2019 21:47 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs Lassi Kortela (21 Jul 2019 22:45 UTC)
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Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs Arthur A. Gleckler (22 Jul 2019 01:27 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs John Cowan (22 Jul 2019 05:22 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs Lassi Kortela (22 Jul 2019 09:07 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs Lassi Kortela (22 Jul 2019 09:24 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs Lassi Kortela (21 Jul 2019 22:06 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs John Cowan (21 Jul 2019 21:22 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs Lassi Kortela (21 Jul 2019 21:48 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs Shiro Kawai (22 Jul 2019 16:54 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs Peter Bex (22 Jul 2019 18:52 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs John Cowan (22 Jul 2019 19:09 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs Peter Bex (22 Jul 2019 19:22 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs Lassi Kortela (22 Jul 2019 19:32 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs John Cowan (22 Jul 2019 20:08 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs Marc Feeley (22 Jul 2019 20:36 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs John Cowan (22 Jul 2019 21:56 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs Marc Feeley (22 Jul 2019 19:36 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs Lassi Kortela (22 Jul 2019 20:22 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs Per Bothner (23 Jul 2019 00:22 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs Peter Bex (23 Jul 2019 05:39 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs Per Bothner (23 Jul 2019 05:57 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs Peter Bex (23 Jul 2019 06:02 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs Shiro Kawai (22 Jul 2019 22:05 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs Lassi Kortela (22 Jul 2019 23:13 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs John Cowan (22 Jul 2019 23:58 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs Shiro Kawai (23 Jul 2019 03:35 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs Lassi Kortela (24 Jul 2019 12:11 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs Lassi Kortela (24 Jul 2019 12:34 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs Marc Feeley (24 Jul 2019 13:26 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs Lassi Kortela (24 Jul 2019 13:42 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs Marc Feeley (24 Jul 2019 14:05 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs John Cowan (24 Jul 2019 15:55 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs John Cowan (24 Jul 2019 13:32 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs shiro.kawai@xxxxxx (26 Jul 2019 14:20 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs John Cowan (21 Jul 2019 20:49 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs Per Bothner (22 Jul 2019 05:44 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs Lassi Kortela (22 Jul 2019 08:35 UTC)
Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs Per Bothner (22 Jul 2019 15:52 UTC)

Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs Lassi Kortela 21 Jul 2019 21:12 UTC

>     But are the different keyword _objects_ incompatible with each other?
>
> I suppose it would work, but it means that the calling code wouldn't be
> portable, of course.

That's true. But it's quite difficult to maintain complex programs
without keyword arguments since it's almost impossible to plan years
ahead what arguments are needed in some procedures. Therefore it would
really help the community to have keywords figured out.

This could make another case for that #!(srfi 88) facility discussed
some time ago on this list to enable or disable the syntax extensions
from particular SRFIs. (Or John's preference without parens, #!srfi 88)
For example, if a source file uses SRFI 88 style keywords it could have
#!(srfi 88) at the start. If it used Common Lisp style keywords, it
could have #!cl-keywords or something (haven't thought about this).

This would enable each source file, plus the REPL, to separately choose
its own keyword syntax. One implementation could support all of them
this way. Would there be problems with this approach?