Re: FW: [racket-users] colon keywords

2018-09-24 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 11:19:11AM +0100, Laurent wrote: > Same here, I've grown happy with the #:keyword notation because it is a > reader thing, not a symbol. > > The other nice option would be like Python and others to make procedure > implicitly take dictionaries to allow choosing at each call

Re: FW: [racket-users] colon keywords

2018-09-24 Thread Laurent
Same here, I've grown happy with the #:keyword notation because it is a reader thing, not a symbol. The other nice option would be like Python and others to make procedure implicitly take dictionaries to allow choosing at each call site between position-based and name-based argument passing for ea

Re: FW: [racket-users] colon keywords

2018-09-23 Thread Eric Griffis
Thanks for the crisp explanation, Jos. This is exactly my concern. Eric On Sun, Sep 23, 2018, 2:38 PM Jos Koot wrote: > Forgot to include the users group. > > -Original Message- > From: Jos Koot [mailto:jos.k...@gmail.com] > Sent: 23 September 2018 21:37 > To: 'Tomasz Rola' > Subject:

FW: [racket-users] colon keywords

2018-09-23 Thread Jos Koot
Forgot to include the users group. -Original Message- From: Jos Koot [mailto:jos.k...@gmail.com] Sent: 23 September 2018 21:37 To: 'Tomasz Rola' Subject: RE: [racket-users] colon keywords MHO, adhere to #:foo, because :foo is a permitted identifier. I prefer a clear distinction between