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

From: Shiro Kawai <shiro>
Date: Fri Nov 17 11:10:30 2006

From: John Cowan <cowan_at_ccil.org>
Subject: Re: [r6rs-discuss] Scheme should not be changed to be case sensitive
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:48:11 -0500

> 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.

You're right. Using "read" is just one way (but probably the
easiest). Asking different means to read the source still
doesn't look good for small implementations, IMO.

--shiro
Received on Fri Nov 17 2006 - 11:10:33 UTC