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Re: [Chicken-hackers] whishlist entry: plain scheme read syntax for type
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John Cowan |
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Re: [Chicken-hackers] whishlist entry: plain scheme read syntax for type declarations |
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Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:28:27 -0400 |
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Jörg F. Wittenberger scripsit:
> A suggestion: Since I don't see keywords having a special meaning
> in type declarations, why not have #:rest having the same meaning
> as #!rest for type declarations. If that was the case, I could
> re-use the -keyword-style switch to make them digestible to other
> implementations.
Not all Schemes can tolerate #:rest either. If there's to be an
alternative, I'd say it should be Common Lisp's: &rest, which is an
ordinary symbol with a special meaning in lambda-lists.
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