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Alternative formulations of keywords John Cowan (11 Apr 2006 22:35 UTC)
Re: Alternative formulations of keywords Marc Feeley (12 Apr 2006 01:58 UTC)
Re: Alternative formulations of keywords John Cowan (12 Apr 2006 02:54 UTC)
Re: Alternative formulations of keywords Per Bothner (12 Apr 2006 03:05 UTC)
Re: Alternative formulations of keywords John Cowan (12 Apr 2006 03:12 UTC)
Re: Alternative formulations of keywords Eli Barzilay (12 Apr 2006 03:17 UTC)
Re: Alternative formulations of keywords Eli Barzilay (12 Apr 2006 03:20 UTC)
Re: Alternative formulations of keywords John Cowan (12 Apr 2006 03:27 UTC)
Re: Alternative formulations of keywords Per Bothner (12 Apr 2006 03:20 UTC)
Re: Alternative formulations of keywords Marc Feeley (12 Apr 2006 04:20 UTC)
Re: Alternative formulations of keywords John Cowan (12 Apr 2006 04:32 UTC)
Re: Alternative formulations of keywords Marc Feeley (12 Apr 2006 05:11 UTC)
Re: Alternative formulations of keywords John Cowan (12 Apr 2006 12:16 UTC)
Re: Alternative formulations of keywords Eli Barzilay (12 Apr 2006 12:29 UTC)
Re: Alternative formulations of keywords Marc Feeley (12 Apr 2006 13:07 UTC)
Re: Alternative formulations of keywords John Cowan (12 Apr 2006 13:36 UTC)
Re: Alternative formulations of keywords Marc Feeley (12 Apr 2006 14:25 UTC)
Re: Alternative formulations of keywords John Cowan (12 Apr 2006 14:28 UTC)
Re: Alternative formulations of keywords Marc Feeley (12 Apr 2006 14:57 UTC)
Re: Alternative formulations of keywords John Cowan (12 Apr 2006 16:26 UTC)
Re: Alternative formulations of keywords Per Bothner (12 Apr 2006 16:49 UTC)
Re: Alternative formulations of keywords John Cowan (12 Apr 2006 16:56 UTC)
Re: Alternative formulations of keywords Eli Barzilay (12 Apr 2006 13:37 UTC)
Re: Alternative formulations of keywords Marc Feeley (12 Apr 2006 04:54 UTC)
Re: Alternative formulations of keywords John Cowan (12 Apr 2006 16:07 UTC)

Re: Alternative formulations of keywords Eli Barzilay 12 Apr 2006 12:29 UTC

On Apr 12, John Cowan wrote:
> Marc Feeley scripsit:
> > For example can your proposed approach work in this case:
> >
> >    (define (f g)
> >      (g foo: 11 bar: 22))
>
> Plainly no.  The compiler should cough with "keywords in call of unknown
> function".
>
> > or in this case:
> >
> >    (define (f #!key (x 11) (y 22)) (+ x y))
> >    (define (g z) (f y: z))
> >    (define (h) (set! f (lambda (#!key (y 33) (z 44)) (* y z))))
>
> Again, plainly no.  [...]
>
> In short, the definition of a function must be either global or
> lexically apparent for it to be callable with keywords.

And there goes all hope of using higher order functions with keywords,
if theses restrictions are used.  (My guess is that you really want
ocaml keyword arguments, which are something completely different than
most use of keywords in the Lisp/Scheme world.)

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