GNU bug report logs - #45914
read skips space after colon when prefix keywords are enabled

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Package: guile;

Reported by: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>

Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2021 07:38:01 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: bug-guile <at> gnu.org
Subject: read skips space after colon when prefix keywords are enabled
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2021 08:37:13 +0100

When prefix keywords are enabled with (read-set! keywords 'prefix) the
characters “: hello” are read as “#:hello” instead of two separate
symbols.  It seems to me that only “:hello” should be read as “#:hello”.

There is no such problem with postfix keywords.

-- 
Ricardo
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