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

From: Eli Barzilay <eli>
Date: Tue Nov 14 18:14:52 2006

On Nov 14, John Cowan wrote:
> Eli Barzilay scripsit:
>
> > The fact that these arguments always go very fast to all kinds of
> > Unicode nuances and exotic language features is a good indication
> > that I don't want that to have an effect on my code.
>
> The only way to do that is to live in a bubble.

[off list, since I want to avoid wasting more time]

Not really -- the reason I like case-insensitive, is that all I need
to know is that two identifiers that are different at the binary level
are different. And by binary level I mean the char->integer that
works with unicode characters (so it's not really a bubble, but
there's a single point to struggle with).

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