keyword question
What should be the behavior of the following form:
`(: foo)
(note the space)
We have evaluated this on 3 different lisps and
have had 3 different answers:
gcl: ( :|| foo)
ACL: (:foo)
sbcl: <illegal terminating character after a colon>
Do any standards speak to this?
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