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

From: Arthur A. Gleckler <arthur>
Date: Thu Nov 16 00:41:55 2006

On Nov 15, 2006, at 9:23 PM, John Cowan wrote:

> I still favor case-sensitivity (I notice that R5RS-ish Schemes with
> case-sensitivity are common), but I think if we are to continue with
> case-insensitivity, we must also adopt Common Lisp's |...| convention
> for weird atoms. Note however that Unicode case-folding is, broadly
> speaking, to lower case, so foo and |foo| would be the same, and
> different from |FOO| (whereas in CL, foo and |FOO| are the same
> and it is |foo| that is distinct).

That sounds like a great idea to me (adopting the Common Lisp reader
macro, but modified to convert to lower case).
Received on Thu Nov 16 2006 - 00:41:43 UTC