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Thu, 15 Oct 2020 17:51:35 -0400 (EDT) |
civodul pushed a commit to branch master
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commit c0001b8bfca3409e25bd0e7d8925df2132e91d06
Author: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
AuthorDate: Thu Oct 15 23:50:11 2020 +0200
doc: cookbook: Clarify what keywords are.
* doc/guix-cookbook.texi (A Scheme Crash Course): Clarify what keywords
are.
---
doc/guix-cookbook.texi | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guix-cookbook.texi b/doc/guix-cookbook.texi
index 2845391..eb73bd3 100644
--- a/doc/guix-cookbook.texi
+++ b/doc/guix-cookbook.texi
@@ -250,8 +250,10 @@ definitions.
@end lisp
@item
-The keyword syntax is @code{#:}; it is used to create unique identifiers.
-@pxref{Keywords,,, guile, GNU Guile Reference Manual}.
+@dfn{Keywords} are typically used to identify the named parameters of a
+procedure. They are prefixed by @code{#:} (hash, colon) followed by
+alphanumeric characters: @code{#:like-this}.
+@xref{Keywords,,, guile, GNU Guile Reference Manual}.
@item
The percentage @code{%} is typically used for read-only global variables in