Am I correct in saying that this conversation is at least partly related to the question of "Will Clojure ever support reader macros?" And for now the answer is "no". Because with reader macros, programmers could change the meaning of ":".
On Friday, September 23, 2016 at 7:13:30 PM UTC-4, John Mastro wrote: > > Timothy Baldridge <tbald...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > > The syntax (I think) comes from Ruby although they call keywords > "symbols". > > The reader syntax for Common Lisp's keywords has the leading colon too. > > John > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
