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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 Marc Feeley 12 Apr 2006 14:25 UTC

On 12-Apr-06, at 9:35 AM, John Cowan wrote:

> There remains #2, which converts keyword-argument pairs to a-lists.
> This requires only that it be lexically apparent what is and what
> is not
> a keyword, not that the actual set of keywords for a function be
> known.
> (Still awaiting a use case for (foo bar baz zam) where baz evaluates
> to a keyword at runtime.)
>
> I will also formally add #3 now, in which the keywords are syntactic
> sugar for procedure *names* like foo:bar:baz:zam:.

Can you explain precisely which problem you are trying to solve?  It
is still unclear to me wether you are trying to:

1) find an alternative mechanism that avoids the need for keyword
objects (i.e. you view foo: as a symbol and want to keep it that way)

2) find an alternative mechanism that avoids the proposed parameter
list syntax (with #!key, etc)

3) find an alternative implementation of the SRFI (i.e. you are OK
with the specification)

Marc