Re: [q-lang-users] Request to add new reserved words "quote" and "QUOTE" to Q

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

John Cowan wrote:
> This is a request to make the identifiers "quote" and "QUOTE" reserved
> and illegal in Q 7.1 and future releases.

Well, I'm all for a Lisp interface, but I don't like the idea to 
introduce some special keywords which aren't even used in the language. 
If the issue is just to disambiguate the s-exp representation, why can't 
this be done with a Lisp macro, say "q-list", which can't possibly occur 
as a Q identifier? Or maybe it would be possible to escape Q function 
symbols? (I'd say that you need an escape mechanism on symbols anyway, 
if only to distinguish "foo" from "FOO" which are the same symbol in 
Lisp, right?)

Albert

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