Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] warn if binding to keyword

[John Cowan]

Thomas Bushnell, BSG scripsit:

> In the context, it's been bound.  If ,%: returns the keyword instead
> of the value of the local variable, it's a bug.

It's not clear to me that binding keywords ought to be allowed at all.
What benefit does that provide?  Normally, we rely on keywords being
self-evaluating.

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