Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs Lassi Kortela 21 Jul 2019 20:52 UTC
> I haven't noticed a particular convention except, perhaps, association > lists. Since keywords aren't standardized, SRFIs don't depend on them > in general. True, I didn't realize alists and plists are an option (no pun intended). Keyword arguments essentially form a plist where the property names are keywords. But are the different keyword _objects_ incompatible with each other? The read syntax is different, but if a SRFI simply specifies that the implementation must have _some_ syntax for keywords, whether it be foo: or :foo or #:foo, and uses one of them for illustrative purposes but implementations are allowed to use the others, would that cause problems?