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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2020-10-15 23:50:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2020-10-15 23:51:04 +0200 |
| commit | c0001b8bfca3409e25bd0e7d8925df2132e91d06 (patch) | |
| tree | e2eecf97b205215c14cb95bafd0b041d5bacaf1b | |
| parent | 850a2f7417468b8894d17a5659fac83d06fcce41 (diff) | |
doc: cookbook: Clarify what keywords are.
* doc/guix-cookbook.texi (A Scheme Crash Course): Clarify what keywords
are.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix-cookbook.texi | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix-cookbook.texi b/doc/guix-cookbook.texi index 2845391db4..eb73bd33d6 100644 --- a/doc/guix-cookbook.texi +++ b/doc/guix-cookbook.texi @@ -250,8 +250,10 @@ definitions. @end lisp @item -The keyword syntax is @code{#:}; it is used to create unique identifiers. -@pxref{Keywords,,, guile, GNU Guile Reference Manual}. +@dfn{Keywords} are typically used to identify the named parameters of a +procedure. They are prefixed by @code{#:} (hash, colon) followed by +alphanumeric characters: @code{#:like-this}. +@xref{Keywords,,, guile, GNU Guile Reference Manual}. @item The percentage @code{%} is typically used for read-only global variables in |