I appreciate people taking the time to vote, and thanks to Jay for doing
this poll.
I am genuinely surprised :keyword saw so much support and that change
was so attractive to people.
And I'm surprised how many people claim to love #:keyword. (The
engineering opposition to any non-backward-compatible change was
entirely predictable, but I assumed only a small percentage would
actually prefer #:keyword, due to familiarity or different aesthetic
wiring, and that around half the people would be indifferent to the change.)
This was also a fun exercise for me, because, when I'm consulting on a
large existing system, I'm often the big-bad-meanie who discourages
people adding all the nonstandard general-purpose syntactic tweaks that
they want to. For an especially good general-purpose tweak, my response
is often something like "We should wait and talk with Racket people
about getting that change into the standard". (Though :keyword is my
own baby, not a client's.)
Neil V.
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