[parenscript-devel] Inconsistent treatment of keyword symbols

[Vladimir Sedach]

Before, keyword symbols were treated as quoted ones by Parenscript
because of the fact that they self-evaluate in Lisp. This does make
them inconsistent with the way that Parenscript handles other symbols,
and inconsistent in the fact that quoted symbols don't evaluate to
themselves so aren't really like keyword symbols. I do think treating
keyword symbols like other symbols is simpler and more consistent. The
other thing this highlights is a bug in the way defun/defvar/etc.
handle their "name" parameters which should be symbols. I've fixed
both, and a patch is now in the darcs repository.

Vladimir

On 9/29/07, Daniel Gackle <danielgackle at gmail.com> wrote:
> This works:
>
>    (ps (defvar :x 1)) => "var x = 1;"
>
> and so does this:
>
>   (ps x) => "x;"
>
> but this doesn't:
>
>   (ps :x)
>
> Attached is a simple patch to make this work for keywords. Is there any
> reason not to do this?
>
> Daniel
>
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