Update documentation and add a NEW entry

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Simon Gomizelj 2018-04-04 17:47:36 -04:00 committed by Kodi Arfer
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@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ Other Breaking Changes
instead of ignoring it. This change increases consistency a bit
and makes accidental unary uses easier to notice.
* `hy-repr` uses registered functions instead of methods
* `HyKeyword` no longer inherits from the string type and has been
made into its own object type.
New Features
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@ -581,10 +581,10 @@ objects with the `__name__` magic will work.
.. code-block:: hy
=> (keyword "foo")
u'\ufdd0:foo'
HyKeyword('foo')
=> (keyword 1)
u'\ufdd0:1'
HyKeyword('foo')
.. _keyword?-fn:

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@ -72,9 +72,7 @@ of bytes. So when running under Python 3, Hy translates ``"foo"`` and
keywords
--------
An identifier headed by a colon, such as ``:foo``, is a keyword. Keywords
evaluate to a string preceded by the Unicode non-character code point U+FDD0,
like ``"\ufdd0:foo"``, so ``:foo`` and ``":foo"`` aren't equal. However, if a
An identifier headed by a colon, such as ``:foo``, is a keyword. If a
literal keyword appears in a function call, it's used to indicate a keyword
argument rather than passed in as a value. For example, ``(f :foo 3)`` calls
the function ``f`` with the keyword argument named ``foo`` set to ``3``. Hence,