Re: Keyword arguments in procedures specified in SRFIs Peter Bex 23 Jul 2019 05:39 UTC
On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 11:22:33PM +0300, Lassi Kortela wrote:
> Kawa:
>
> (symbol->string '#:foo) => "foo:"

That's odd.

In CHICKEN, (keyword->string #:foo) => "foo", because the colon
is part of the indication to the reader that it's a keyword, it's
not actually part of the keyword's name itself.

It looks like other Schemes with keywords tend to do the same.

Cheers,
Peter