GNU bug report logs - #10522
Patch: Improve optional variable and keyword notation in manual

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Package: guile;

Reported by: b3timmons <at> speedymail.org

Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:49:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Andy Wingo <wingo <at> pobox.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 10522 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ian Price <ianprice90 <at> googlemail.com>
To: Andy Wingo <wingo <at> pobox.com>
Cc: b3timmons <at> speedymail.org, guile-devel <guile-devel <at> gnu.org>,
	10522 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10522: Patch: Improve optional variable and keyword notation
	in manual
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:34:43 +0000

Andy Wingo <wingo <at> pobox.com> writes:

> Also, it seems pedantic to repeat the keyword arguments (once as
> keyword, once as identifier).  Surely #:foo=bar is unambiguous?

Since guile use the same name for both the keyword and identifier, I'd
say so.

-- 
Ian Price

"Programming is like pinball. The reward for doing it well is
the opportunity to do it again" - from "The Wizardy Compiled"
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