Re: symbol is nested in #{ ...... }#

[Thompson, David]

On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 6:36 AM Damien Mattei <damien.mattei@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> thank you very much Tomas,
> it solved my problem:
> (symbol->keyword (list->symbol ....
> me too i was digging the manual for 2 hours :-)
> Damien
> note: seems a bit weird anyway that guile react differently in this case
> than Kawa and Racket

Guile's behavior makes sense to me. #{...}# is syntax for symbols, not
keywords. Symbols can contain any arbitrary characters. Starting a
symbol with "#:" doesn't make it a keyword. Would you expect
(string->symbol "#:hello") to return a keyword? I wouldn't.

- Dave