Re: Keyword syntax

[Mikael Djurfeldt]

Frederic Brunel <address@hidden> writes:

> I think I'm coming a bit too late to debate on language syntax but why 
> keywords
> must be prefixed by a #?? It's a annoying in comparison with the Common Lisp
> syntax... In class definition its ugly! :-(
> 
> (define-class my-class ()
>  (slot1 #:accessor slot1 <-- !!
>   ...))
> 

Agreed.

You can fix this by setting

  (read-set! keywords 'prefix)

However, we've planned to make this setting the default as soon as
we've made it possible to have local read-settings in different files.