Re: R7RS-large backward compatibility John Cowan (08 Mar 2020 21:58 UTC)
Re: R7RS-large backward compatibility Lassi Kortela (08 Mar 2020 22:40 UTC)
Re: [scheme-reports-wg2] Re: R7RS-large backward compatibility Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (09 Mar 2020 07:42 UTC)
Re: [scheme-reports-wg2] Re: R7RS-large backward compatibility Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (09 Mar 2020 11:46 UTC)
Re: [scheme-reports-wg2] R7RS-large backward compatibility Marc Feeley (09 Mar 2020 12:03 UTC)
Re: [scheme-reports-wg2] R7RS-large backward compatibility Lassi Kortela (09 Mar 2020 12:07 UTC)
Re: R7RS-large backward compatibility Per Bothner (09 Mar 2020 16:30 UTC)
Re: [scheme-reports-wg2] Re: R7RS-large backward compatibility Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (09 Mar 2020 16:48 UTC)

Re: [scheme-reports-wg2] R7RS-large backward compatibility Marc Feeley 09 Mar 2020 12:03 UTC

> On Mar 9, 2020, at 3:42 AM, Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen <xxxxxx@nieper-wisskirchen.de> wrote:
>
> We don't have to use the `#:key' syntax if we don't want to force that Chez adds a mode where `#:key' is read in our sense as long as there are letters in the alphabet.  `#&key' looks equally fine.  Apart from that, if Chez is the only system using `#:key' for something else, we can simply ask its author.  It seems that he has already once abandoned the `#:key' syntax for uninterned symbols: http://www.r6rs.org/r6rs-editors/2004-January/000043.html.

Gambit uses #:foo for uninterned symbols.

Marc