I am wary of this. I really don't have a strong preference either way, my suspicion is it's mostly "what did you become famliar with initially" kind of thing. :keyword is more Common Lisp'ish, #:keyword matches other Schemes I've used.
But: - I'd rather not have *two* keyword syntaxes in Racket at the same time. - But removing #: from the language would break tons of packages. - Maybe if #lang racket2 ever happened that would be a good place for this, and the ability to have multiple #langs allows us to survive an upgrade easier than say, the Python 2 to 3 upgrade was (which I was in the trenches for, and was a decade long headache). Let's try to avoid breaking things that exist currently, anyway. - It's such a small cosmetic change I don't see why it's worth it. If it bothers you a lot, there's a #lang path. My $.02, - cwebb Neil Van Dyke writes: > I recall multiple discussions about colon keywords over the many > years, but (it's 5am) temporarily forgot that Jay did a poll 3 years > ago. > > Jay's results summary quoted and linked below. > > I think 3 years means it's time to go from these results, to either > changing Racket, or expecting "preference #langs" to become more of a > thing. (Again, from a software engineering perspective, I'd > discourage "preference #langs"; but, from a love of programming > perspective, I'd understand.) > > > Jay McCarthy <[email protected]> wrote on Thu, 22 Oct 2015 13:43:50 -0400: >> It has been a little more than a week and we've stopped getting results. >> >> The full results should be publicly available. Here is a summary: >> >> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HSwtxLhz5HWGMJjMXaO8LQyHJsdMkGbBlRa4fU7Sa34/viewanalytics >> >> and here is the raw data: >> >> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rZNNGwupMZTybxKRhukLdgA8VIA8oPlQ7nPk8Gv52Es/edit#gid=348615477 >> >> My interpretation of the data is as follows: >> - The #:keyword syntax is liked fine with a rating of 5.67 >> - The :keyword syntax is more loved with a rating of 6.9 >> - But change is not popular, average of 5.1 with high standard deviation >> - People that really like #:keyword do not want a change and do not >> like :keyword >> - People that really like :keyword want a change >> >> I am genuinely surprised :keyword saw so much support and that >> change was so attractive to people. >> >> Naturally whenever you do stuff like this, you want to ask more >> questions, like what about keyword:, what about supporting both, >> etc. >> >> Jay > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/racket-users/3vOTC1FbieA/UsifvfWtBgAJ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
