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

From: John Cowan <cowan>
Date: Fri Nov 17 10:48:20 2006

Shiro Kawai scripsit:

> Well, I myself do not like that, too. One thing is that
> it requires the implementation to read the whole library
> at once to start compiling/interpreting it; which can be
> a burden for small, lightweight implementation.

That presumes that the implementation must use "read", but
I see no requirement to do so.

-- 
John Cowan  cowan_at_ccil.org  http://ccil.org/~cowan
Any sufficiently-complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc,
informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
        --Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming (rules 1-9 are unknown)

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