Re: [Pika-dev] Keyword type?

[Tom Lord]

    > > (How do you feel about :foo instead of #:foo?  It violates R5RS, I
    > > guess, but -- in any way that is likely to really matter?)

    > We could do it like Guile and make the :foo syntax a reader extension
    > that can be optionally enabled. There might be programs that count on
    > names starting with ':' being identifiers.

Sounds like a pretty good idea.  Pika programs that want to use
keywords with the pretty syntax but need to read or write symbols
whose names start with ':' can use #":foo".

-t