Marc Feeley scripsit:

> I'm not sure I understand your point.  I'm advocating for a colon
> suffix.  SRFI 42 uses a colon prefix on identifiers (which by the way
> is illegal in R5RS except for a lone colon).  So keyword objects
> using a colon suffix syntax do not hinder in any way SRFI 42 or any
> R5RS compliant code, but a colon prefix syntax does.

Why do you say that?  The : character is permitted at both the beginning
and the end of R5RS identifiers.  See the productions in 7.1.1,
which say that ":" is a <special initial>, which is one kind of
<initial>, which is one kind of <subsequent>.

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