Peter Gavin scripsit:
> For argument's sake, suppose the report required all implementations
> behave as if strings and characters were internally represented as
> UCS-4. Could you give me an example where two strings could be
> string=? yet be represented by different byte sequences?
No, I can't. However, there may be other kinds of foldings that ought
to be done on Scheme identifiers other than case-folding. A formal
comment is in progress.
> I would propose the "mental complexity"
> argument applies to any case folding in general. A case-sensitive
> scheme would be easiest to grok, especially for beginning coders and
> people unfamiliar with Unicode. Case folding in Unicode is nowhere
> near as simple as case insensitivity in ASCII.
+1
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Received on Wed Nov 15 2006 - 14:08:26 UTC