Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix two "qualified symbol as keyword" mixups

[felix . winkelmann]

> It turns out that here (and also in open-input-file*), keywords are
> supposed to be accepted to control the file mode.  These are written
> as qualified symbols with no namespace (###text and ###append), which
> used to read the same as keywords.  This is more of an accident than
> by design, as far as I can tell.
>
> Attached is a simple patch to fix this.
>
> I couldn't find any other places in core where we do something like this,
> so hopefully this fixes it.

Weird, indeed. I can't recall why this "###" syntax has been chosen,
keyword syntax is of course the right thing to do here. Perhaps this was
done during a transitional stage where "#:..." was not yet available...


felix