[Chicken-janitors] Re: #322: SRFI 88 violation of keyword v symbol

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#322: SRFI 88 violation of keyword v symbol
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  Reporter:  kon             |       Owner:  felix              
      Type:  task            |      Status:  assigned           
  Priority:  major           |   Milestone:                     
 Component:  core libraries  |     Version:  4.5.x              
Resolution:                  |    Keywords:  read-syntax keyword
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Comment(by kon):

 I really expected this to be "back burner". Wow, fun with quoted symbols.

 SRFI-88 says |abc:| is a symbol & |abc|: is a keyword. This makes some
 sense. The "keyword quote" (':') is much like the quote - '|'foo| has
 printname "'foo" &  '|abc:| has "foo:".

 So, given the examples above, I think:

 '|abc|:xyz|def|: is a keyword but '|abc|:xyz|def| is a symbol.

 'abc\ def: is a keyword, since only the space is escaped .

 '|abc|:|def| is a symbol & '|abc|:|def|: a keyword? This one is tricky
 because quoted symbol concatenation is an issue for people who don't like
 whitespace. Should '('|foo||bar|) be '('foo bar), as it is in Chicken
 4.5.7 or '('foobar), as I guess it would be in [experimental 55ad083]?

 Seems the idea is if a "keyword quote"  is directly outside of the symbol
 quote then a keyword. For Chicken, assuming keyword-style is #:prefix,
 ':|abc|xyz|def| is a keyword & '|abc|xyz|def|: is two tokens? When
 keyword-style is #:suffix,  ':|abc|xyz|def|  is two tokens?

 What about '|abc|:|def| & prefix keywords? A quoted symbol & a keyword?
 Just a quoted symbol?

 (Still kinda think this is a lower priority.)

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Ticket URL: <http://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/322#comment:6>
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