Re: RFD: [PATCH] Fixing symbol printing

[Marius Vollmer]

Andreas Rottmann <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi!
>
> I've developed the following patch, which fixes R5RS-compatibility for
> printing symbols starting/ending with ':'.


Good!

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> However, when the keywords reader option is set, the old behaviour is
> re-established, to allow writing out these symbols in "escaped form"
> so that they can be read back when the prefix keywords reader option
> is turned on.

Shouldn't we make a new printer option for this so that reading and
writing can be controlled separately?  The printer option could have a
setting that says "be compatible with the reader option", which would
be the default.

Ok?

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