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bug#47875: Elisp reader doesn't handle keywords


From: Ivan Sokolov
Subject: bug#47875: Elisp reader doesn't handle keywords
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2021 15:13:29 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at> writes:

> Using Guile 3.0.5, the elisp reader does not seem to support keywords
> written in Elisp's preferred prefix-style notation (:keyword).
>
> Meanwhile in Emacs M-: :keyword yields :keyword.  Using Scheme-style
> keywords also does not work:
>
> I think Guile should produce keyword objects for the former, so that we
> don't need to talk about the latter.

In Scheme keywords and symbols are separate entities, but in Elisp
keywords are just self-quoted symbols. I think your solution will cause
problems with Elisp algorithms that expect keywords to be symbolp.





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