Self-evaluating keywords or not? Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (16 Mar 2020 13:09 UTC)
Re: Self-evaluating keywords or not? Shiro Kawai (16 Mar 2020 13:45 UTC)
Re: Self-evaluating keywords or not? Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (16 Mar 2020 13:54 UTC)
Re: Self-evaluating keywords or not? Shiro Kawai (16 Mar 2020 13:58 UTC)
Re: Self-evaluating keywords or not? Marc Feeley (16 Mar 2020 15:38 UTC)
Re: Self-evaluating keywords or not? Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (16 Mar 2020 16:00 UTC)
Re: Self-evaluating keywords or not? Per Bothner (16 Mar 2020 16:47 UTC)
Re: Self-evaluating keywords or not? Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (16 Mar 2020 16:53 UTC)
Re: Self-evaluating keywords or not? Shiro Kawai (16 Mar 2020 20:27 UTC)
Re: Self-evaluating keywords or not? Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (16 Mar 2020 20:37 UTC)
Re: Self-evaluating keywords or not? Lassi Kortela (16 Mar 2020 21:17 UTC)
Re: Self-evaluating keywords or not? Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (16 Mar 2020 21:31 UTC)
Re: Self-evaluating keywords or not? Shiro Kawai (16 Mar 2020 22:05 UTC)
Re: Self-evaluating keywords or not? Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (17 Mar 2020 07:14 UTC)
Re: Self-evaluating keywords or not? Shiro Kawai (17 Mar 2020 07:46 UTC)
Re: Self-evaluating keywords or not? Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (17 Mar 2020 08:05 UTC)
Re: Self-evaluating keywords or not? Shiro Kawai (17 Mar 2020 08:31 UTC)
Re: Self-evaluating keywords or not? Lassi Kortela (16 Mar 2020 22:18 UTC)
Re: Self-evaluating keywords or not? Per Bothner (16 Mar 2020 22:36 UTC)
Re: Self-evaluating keywords or not? Shiro Kawai (16 Mar 2020 22:42 UTC)
Re: Self-evaluating keywords or not? Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (17 Mar 2020 07:22 UTC)
Re: Self-evaluating keywords or not? Shiro Kawai (16 Mar 2020 21:34 UTC)
Re: Self-evaluating keywords or not? Shiro Kawai (16 Mar 2020 21:43 UTC)
Re: Self-evaluating keywords or not? Lassi Kortela (16 Mar 2020 22:02 UTC)
Re: Self-evaluating keywords or not? Shiro Kawai (16 Mar 2020 22:06 UTC)
Re: Self-evaluating keywords or not? Shiro Kawai (16 Mar 2020 22:19 UTC)
Re: Self-evaluating keywords or not? Lassi Kortela (16 Mar 2020 22:24 UTC)
Re: Self-evaluating keywords or not? Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (17 Mar 2020 07:28 UTC)
Re: Self-evaluating keywords or not? Per Bothner (16 Mar 2020 22:24 UTC)
Re: Self-evaluating keywords or not? Lassi Kortela (16 Mar 2020 22:56 UTC)
Re: Self-evaluating keywords or not? Per Bothner (17 Mar 2020 00:36 UTC)

Re: Self-evaluating keywords or not? Lassi Kortela 16 Mar 2020 22:02 UTC

> Kawa's model to distinguish "bare" keyword and quoted one is
> interesting.   Is there a way to pass argument list,
> including keyword arguments, via apply?   Once it becomes data, it looks
> like it loses "keywordness".

In Racket, which shares the Kawa semantics, there is a special
`keyword-apply`: "Like apply, but kw-lst and kw-val-lst supply
by-keyword arguments in addition to the by-position arguments of the vs
and lst". So it takes a list of keyword objects and internally converts
them somehow to the native calling convention.

<https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/procedures.html#%28def._%28%28lib._racket%2Fprivate%2Fbase..rkt%29._keyword-apply%29%29>

I couldn't find a similar one in the Kawa manual with a quick search.

Both Kawa and Racket allow a keyword to be quoted: '#:foo

In that case it becomes a keyword object (like :foo in Gauche) and is
not treated as a special syntactic marker.