(call/kw name expr ... marker :kw expr :kw  expr ...)

I don't care exactly what the marker is.  But this way it looks exactly like a normal function call except for the leading call/kw and the marker.  If a user thinks call/kw is too verbose, it's easy to write a syntax-rules macro that lets you use a shorter (or even longer) name.

I also don't care if the keyword identifiers have colons in them or not.

And by the same token:

        (lambda/kw (identifier ... marker identifier ...) . body)

Again, it looks as much like plain lambda as it possibly could.

Thirdly, I would also like this:

        (define/kw (procname identifier ... marker identifier ...) . body)

What do you think of this design?  It sacrifices the possibility of a syntax-rules implementation, and it doesn't allow for these mythical hygienic keywords, but I don't care about either of these points.  Because this is simple to use.

Question:  You can use apply to call a kw-procedure with no keywords.  Does that also mean you can call it directly without call/kw?

John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        xxxxxx@ccil.org
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