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

From: Andre van Tonder <andre>
Date: Tue Nov 14 15:55:43 2006

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Arthur A. Gleckler wrote:

> Also, here's an example of the upper-case convention from MIT Scheme sources
> ("runtime/genio.scm"):
>
> (define-syntax define-name-map
> (sc-macro-transformer
> (lambda (form environment)
> environment
> (if (syntax-match? '(SYMBOL) (cdr form))
> (let ((sing (cadr form)))
> (let ((plur (symbol sing 'S))
> ...

I am agnostic on this, but if legibility is an concern here,
a smart editor could easily render the quoted and unquoted parts
in different colours, in a way that is less error-prone than
user-reliant capitalization.

Andre
Received on Tue Nov 14 2006 - 15:55:07 UTC