[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] Scheme should not be changed to be case sensitive.

From: Arthur A. Gleckler <arthur>
Date: Tue Nov 14 15:29:20 2006

On Nov 14, 2006, at 12:20 PM, John Cowan wrote:

>> Saying that "sigma" is the same as "final sigma" can only come from
>> someone who doesn't have final characters in their language.
>
> Indeed. As has been pointed out before, "philoS." with final sigma
> is the word "philos" at the end of a sentence, whereas "philos." with
> a normal sigma is an abbreviation, perhaps for "philosophia".

But those are both cases with punctuation in them. It's the
punctuation that is making the special interpretation, not the case
of the final character alone. A symbol in a program is not affected
in the same way.
Received on Tue Nov 14 2006 - 15:28:46 UTC